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Stephen Booth

Born in Lancashire, Stephen Booth has been a newspaper and magazine journalist for 25 years. He has worked as a rugby reporter, a night shift sub-editor on the Scottish Daily Express and Production Editor of the Farming Guardian magazine, in addition to spells on local newspapers in the North of England. Stephen lives in a in the UK with his wife, three cats and three goats.

His debut crime novel Black Dog was the first in a series set in the Peak District and featuring young Derbyshire police detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry. Black Dog was named as one of the six best crime novels of 2000 by the London Evening Standard, and Reginald Hill said: "...

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Books
Lost River Lost River
A May Bank Holiday in the Peak District is ruined by the tragic drowning...
The Kill Call The Kill Call
On a rain-swept Derbyshire moor, hounds from the local foxhunt...
Lost River Lost River
A May Bank Holiday in the Peak District is ruined by the tragic drowning...

Interview

What kind of effect must it have on a person who has survived such brutal violence as Maggie Crew?

I think there are powerfully conflicting internal pressures on someone like Maggie Crew - on the one hand, her mind wants to suppress the memory of what happened to her, but on the other hand, her subconscious is screaming at her with the enormity and pain of it. The psychological wounds from such an incident can be deeper than the physical ones, and more easily re-opened. As a writer, I′m interested...

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