The Corpse Bridge

Villagers in Derbyshire have carried their dead across the River Dove by way of the Corpse Bridge for generations, on the way to the burial grounds beyond. Now a property developer wants to lift that sanctity from the land and turn it into a car park for his holiday cottages. Soon corpses are turning up along the approach to the old crossing. Are they meant as a warning to keep away from the consecrated plots, or has a dangerous serial killer started a hunt in the Peak District?

Detective Cooper has returned to duty after a traumatic incident and hopes that unravelling the Corpse Bridge killings will restore his sense of who he is. Yet his own inner struggles threaten to pull his attention away from the investigation, and the stakes reach beyond his career to the people closest to him.

Stephen Booth is a crime writer whose novels are set in the Peak District and its surrounding villages. The Corpse Bridge is part of his Cooper and Fry series, which follows two detectives working in the region.