Detective Sergeant Ben Cooper comes closer to death than ever before in this new brand new novel in the Cooper and Fry series.

As moorland fires sweep across England's Peak District national park, hundreds of firefighters and park rangers battle to prevent flames reaching a remote inn, once a famous landmark but now abandoned and boarded up.

The blaze is just one of a series of random acts of arson which have destroyed miles of heather moorland - and once the flames have died, a grim surprise awaits DS Ben Cooper and DS Diane Fry: a body, dead for years...