Harbour Street (Vera Stanhope #6)
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In Newcastle, Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter Jessie travel home on the busy Metro. The train is stopped unexpectedly, and Jessie sees that one woman doesn’t leave with the other passengers: Margaret Krukowski has been fatally stabbed. A...
- Location(s): Shetland Islands
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
When an elderly woman is shot in what appears to be a tragic accident, Shetland detective Jimmy Perez is called to investigate the mystery. The sparse landscape and the emptiness of the sea have bred a fierce and secretive...
- Location(s): Fair Isle
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
With the autumn storms raging, Fair Isle feels cut off from the rest of the world. Trapped, tension is high and tempers become frayed. Enough to drive someone to murder . . . A woman’s body is discovered at...
Hidden Depths (Vera Stanhope #3)
- Location(s): Northumberland, The North East (England)
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
A hot summer on the Northumberland coast and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son strangled, laid out in a bath of water and covered with wild flowers. This stylized murder scene has Inspector...
- Location(s): Shetland Islands
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Introducing Inspector Jimmy Perez. Raven Black is the first book in Ann Cleeves’ bestselling Shetland series – now a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall. A remote community with a killer in their midst . . . On...
Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope #2)
- Location(s): Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
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...
- Location(s): Northumberland
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Driving home during a swirling blizzard, Vera Stanhope’s only thought is to get there quickly. But the snow is so heavy, she becomes disoriented and loses her way. Ploughing on, she sees a car slewed off the road ahead...
The Glass Room (Vera Stanhope #5)
- Location(s): Northumberland
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her hippy neighbours keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation. But when one of them goes missing, her path leads her to more than a missing friend ....
- Location(s): North Devon
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father’s funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community...
- Location(s): Shetland Islands
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Unst, Shetland’s most northerly island, to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends to a Shetlander. But late on the night of the...
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