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Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope #2)

Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope  #2)

Author(s): Ann Cleeves

Location(s): Yorkshire

Genre(s): Crime, Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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Ten years after Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail Mantel, disturbing new evidence proving her innocence emerges in the East Yorkshire village of Elvet. Abigail’s killer is still at large.

For Emma Bennett, the revelation brings back haunting memories of her vibrant best friend – and of the fearful winter’s day when she had discovered her body lying cold in a ditch.

Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope makes fresh inquiries, and the villagers are hauled back to a time they would rather forget. Tensions begin to mount, but are people afraid of the killer, or of their own guilty pasts?

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Set in the fictional town of Elvet, East Yorkshire, there are sufficient mentions of real locales to make the story feel really real. Vera Stanhope is a complex, but likeable investigator and look forward...

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