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Introducing Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope. The Crow Trap is the first book in Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope series – which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn, Vera. Everyone has something to hide .. . Three very different women come together at an isolated 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. 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, but when she gets there she is shocked to discover an apparent suicide. But then another death occurs, and a fourth woman enters the picture – the unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope, who must piece together the truth from these women’s tangled lives . .. E

Telling Tale is the second book in the Vera Stanhope series, from Ann Cleeves, the Sunday Times bestselling author and creator of Vera, Shetland, and The Two Rivers series.

Hidden Depths is the third book in the Vera Stanhope series, from Ann Cleeves, the Sunday Times bestselling author and creator of Vera, Shetland, and The Two Rivers series.

Silent Voices is the fourth book in the Vera Stanhope series, from Ann Cleeves, the Sunday Times bestselling author and creator of Vera, Shetland, and The Two Rivers series.

The instant New York Times bestseller and first in a gripping new series from Ann Cleeves―author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows.In North Devon, where two rivers conver

The Long Call is the No.1 bestselling first novel in the Two Rivers series from Sunday Times bestseller and creator of Vera and Shetland, Ann Cleeves.In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge

Young Tom French was found dead, lying in a marsh on the Norfolk coast, with his head bashed in and his binoculars still around his neck. One of the best birders in England, Tom had put the village of

For Dorothea Cassidy, Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the one day she could call her own, and would plan to visit people she wanted to see as a welcome respite from the ro

"I loved The Seagull — quite simply it reminds me why Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers! I relish learning more about Vera with each book, and The Seagull provides fresh insight into o

Cold Earth is the seventh book in Ann Cleeves’ beloved Shetland series, which is now a major success for the BBC, and available to stream in the US.From Ann Cleeves, winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger A

Shortlisted for Scottish Crime Novel of the YearIn Thin Air, featuring Ann Cleeves' beloved Inspector Jimmy Perez, a group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to She