The second in the series set in the Derbyshire Peak District, Dancing with the Virgins is a tense psychological follow-up to Stephen Booth's acclaimed debut Black Dog. 'The body of the woman sprawled obscenely among the stones...She looked like a dead woman, dancing.' The ring of cairns known as the Nine Virgins has stood on the windswept moors of Derbyshire for centuries. Now, as winter closes in, a tenth figure is added - a body - and a modern tragedy is added to the dark legend that surrounds the stones. There's no shortage of suspects, each with their own guilty secret, but what DS Fry and DC Cooper lack is any kind of motive. As they search separately for answers, it seems the reasons for the strange behaviour of the moor's inhabitants may lie somewhere in the past, in a terrible crime yet to be discovered...
- ISBN10 000749890X
- ISBN13 9780007498901
- Publish Date 19 April 2012 (first published 8 May 2001)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Harper
- Edition ePub ed
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 416
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk