Vera Stanhope #6
Minotaur Books
December 2015
On Sale: December 1, 2015
Featuring: Joe Ashworth; Jessie Ashworth; Vera Stanhope
ISBN: 125007066X EAN: 9781250070661 Kindle: B00XHJM93M Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
HARBOUR STREET is the next spellbinding installment
in Ann Cleeves' series of crime novels about Vera Stanhope,
played in the TV detective drama VERA by Brenda
Blethyn.
As the snow falls thickly on Newcastle, the
shouts and laughter of Christmas revelers break the muffled
silence. Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter Jessie are
swept along in the jostling crowd onto the Metro.
But
when the train is stopped due to the bad weather, and the
other passengers fade into the swirling snow, Jessie
notices
that one lady hasn't left the train: Margaret Krukowski has
been fatally stabbed.
Arriving at the scene, DI Vera
Stanhope is relieved to have an excuse to escape the
holiday
festivities. As she stands on the silent, snow-covered
station platform, Vera feels a familiar buzz of
anticipation, sensing that this will be a complex and
unusual case.
Then, just days later, a second woman
is murdered. Vera knows that to find the key to this new
killing she needs to understand what had been troubling
Margaret so deeply before she died - before another life is
lost. She can feel in her bones that there's a link.
Retracing Margaret's final steps, Vera finds herself
searching deep into the hidden past of this seemingly
innocent neighborhood, led by clues that keep revolving
around one street...
Why are the residents of Harbour
Street so reluctant to speak?
Told with piercing
prose
and a forensic eye, Ann Cleeves' gripping new novel
explores
what happens when a community closes ranks to protect their
own-and at what point silent witnesses become complicit.
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