Stephen Booth’s crime fiction novel Scared to Live [ISBN 978 0 00 780840 3] is one of the best crime fiction books I’ve read this year. The context and atmosphere are so well laid down, the plot is very, very clever, the characters beautifully drawn and multi-dimensional (especially the edgy, insensitive DS Fry) whilst the narrative unwinds subtly the process of the investigation. This is one to keep and read again.
Stephen Booth’s crime fiction novel Scared to Live [ISBN 978 0 00 780840 3] is one of the best crime fiction books I’ve read this year. The context and atmosphere are so well laid down, the plot is very, very clever, the characters beautifully drawn and multi-dimensional (especially the edgy, insensitive DS Fry) whilst the narrative unwinds subtly the process of the investigation. This is one to keep and read again.
In an out of the way house in a village in Derbyshire a woman was shot to death. She had been almost recluse and appeared a harmless middle aged women – though no one knew a great deal about her. So what has happened and why ? At the same time the police a quite puzzled about a house fire where two children and a women die – was this just an everyday tragedy ? DS Fry eventually discovers a link between the cases and why some people are clearly scared to live – and others scared of dying.
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