Stephen Booth (writer)
Stephen Booth | |
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Born | 1952 Burnley, Lancashire, England |
Alma mater | Birmingham City University |
Genre | Crime Fiction |
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Stephen Booth (born 1952) is an English crime-writer. He is the author of the Derbyshire-set Cooper and Fry series.
Early and personal life[]
Booth was born in Burnley, Lancashire, the son of Jim and Edna Booth. At the age of two, he moved with his parents to Blackpool[1] where he attended Arnold School.[2] He lives with his wife Lesley in Retford, Nottinghamshire.[3][4]
Career[]
For over 27 years, he was a journalist for various newspapers and magazines including the Wilmslow Advertiser, Huddersfield Examiner, and the Worksop Guardian. He also worked as a sub-editor for the Daily Express and The Guardian.[5] In 2001 he gave this up to be a full-time novelist.[6]
Bibliography[]
Cooper and Fry series, about two young Derbyshire police detectives, Ben Cooper and Diane Fry, as they try to solve various murders:
- Black Dog (2000)[7]
- Dancing with the Virgins (2001)
- Blood on the Tongue (2002)
- Blind to the Bones (2003)
- One Last Breath (2004)
- The Dead Place (2005)
- Scared to Live (2006)
- Dying to Sin (2007)
- The Kill Call (2009)
- Lost River (2010)
- The Devil's Edge (2011)
- Dead and Buried (2012)
- Already Dead (2013)[8]
- The Corpse Bridge (2014)
- The Murder Road (2015)
- Secrets of Death (2016)
- Dead in the Dark (2017)
- Fall Down Dead (2018)
Ben Cooper novella:
- Claws (2007)[9]
Stand-alone novels:
- Top Hard (2011) [10]
- Drowned Lives (2019)
Awards and nominations[]
- 2001 – Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel: Black Dog
- 2001 – Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist): Dancing with the Virgins
- 2002 – Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel: Dancing With the Virgins
- 2003 – Dagger in the Library[11]
- 2006 – Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award (shortlist): One Last Breath
- 2007 – Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award (shortlist): The Dead Place
References[]
- ^ Lancashire Telegraph Accessed 2010
- ^ Lancashire Telegraph Accessed 2010
- ^ Lancashire Telegraph Accessed 2010
- ^ "20th Century Notts: 1985-1987". Nottingham City of Literature.
- ^ "Stephen Booth – biography". www.stephen-booth.com. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
- ^ bio at fantasticfiction.co.uk Accessed 2010
- ^ http://www.stephen-booth.com/New%20books.htm
- ^ http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/stephen-booth/already-dead.htm
- ^ "Stephen Booth - sales". www.stephen-booth.com. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
- ^ http://www.stephen-booth.com/new%20stephenbooth.htm
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-05-29. Retrieved 2013-06-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
External links[]
- 1952 births
- English crime fiction writers
- English male journalists
- People educated at Arnold School
- People from Burnley
- People from Blackpool
- Living people
- Barry Award winners
- English male novelists