Vera Stanhope #2
Minotaur Books
September 2017
On Sale: August 22, 2017
416 pages ISBN: 1250122775 EAN: 9781250122773 Kindle: B01N5UR9GL Trade Size / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
From Ann Cleeves, winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger Award, comes Telling Tales, an early book in the Vera Stanhope series, which has been brought to life by Brenda Blethyn in the hit TV series Vera.
It has been ten years since Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail Mantel. Now residents of the East Yorkshire village of Elvet are disturbed to hear of new evidence proving Jeanieโs innocence. Abigailโs killer is still at large.
For one young woman, Emma Bennett, the revelation brings back haunting memories of her vibrant best friend--and of that fearful winterโs day when she had discovered her body lying cold in a ditch.
As Inspector Vera Stanhope makes fresh enquiries on the peninsula and villagers are hauled back to a time they hoped to forget, tensions begin to mount. But are people afraid of the killer or of their own guilty pasts?
With each personโs story revisited, the Inspector begins to suspect that some deadly secrets are threatening to unfurlโฆ
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