Vera Stanhope #8
Minotaur Books
September 2017
On Sale: September 5, 2017
Featuring: Vera Stanhope
416 pages ISBN: 1250124867 EAN: 9781250124869 Kindle: B01MTA22WE Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
"Definitely one of the best crime novels of
2017."—Reviewing the Evidence
A
visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanhope face to
face with an old enemy: former detective superintendent, and
now inmate, John Brace. Brace was convicted of corruption
and involvement in the death of a gamekeeper – and Vera
played a key part in his downfall.
Now, Brace promises
Vera information about the disappearance of Robbie Marshall,
a notorious wheeler-dealer who disappeared in the
mid-nineties, if she will look out for his daughter and
grandchildren. He tells her that Marshall is dead, and that
his body is buried close to St Mary’s Island in Whitley Bay.
However, when a search team investigates, officers find not
one skeleton, but two.
This cold case case takes Vera
back in time, and very close to home, as Brace and Marshall,
along with a mysterious stranger known only as ‘the Prof’,
were close friends of Hector, her father. Together, they
were the 'Gang of Four’, regulars at a glamorous nightclub
called The Seagull. Hector had been one of the last people
to see Marshall alive. As the past begins to collide
dangerously with the present, Vera confronts her prejudices
and unwanted memories to dig out the truth . .
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The Seagull is a searing new novel by Sunday
Times bestselling author Ann Cleeves, about corruption deep
in the heart of a community, and fragile, and fracturing,
family relationships.