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The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope £1)

The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope £1)

Author(s): Ann Cleeves

Location(s): North Pennines

Genre(s): Crime, Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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Three very different women come together at isolated Baikie’s Cottage on the North Pennines, to complete an environmental survey. Three women who each know the meaning of betrayal . . .

Rachael, the team leader, is still reeling after a double betrayal by her lover and boss, Peter Kemp. Anne, a botanist, sees the survey as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. And then there is Grace, a strange, uncommunicative young woman, hiding plenty of her own secrets.

Rachael is the first to arrive at the cottage, where she discovers the body of her friend, Bella Furness. Bella, it appears, has committed suicide – a verdict Rachael refuses to accept.

When another death occurs, a fourth woman enters the picture – the unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope . . .

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Set mainly in the remote landscape of the North Pennines, three very different women come together to carry out an environmental survey, each with a backstory… Enter Vera, with an inimitable presence, but somewhere...

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