Vera Stanhope #6
Minotaur Books
September 2016
On Sale: September 6, 2016
400 pages ISBN: 1250104971 EAN: 9781250104977 Kindle: B00XHJM93M Trade Size / e-Book (reprint) 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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