The Dark Wives
29 August 2024Imprint: Macmillan
Synopsis
'Expertly plotted and mesmerising' - Mick Herron A local myth. A deadly threat. Vera Stanhope, star of ITV's Vera, returns for her most shocking case so far . . .
I can't see anything. It's as if this house is on its own in the world, as if I'm on my own in the world and nobody would care if...
Details
29 August 2024711 minutes
Janine Birkett
9781529077773Imprint: Macmillan
Reviews
Like Rendell and James before her, like McDermid and Rankin today, Ann Cleeves is one of our secret chroniclers, charting – under cover of a series of expertly plotted and mesmerising crime novels – how we live nowMick Herron
A thoroughly engrossing thrillerThe Mail on Sunday on The Rising Tide
Cleeves’s Northumberland novels are strong on atmosphere, combining old-fashioned detective work with a modern take on classThe Sunday Times
Who doesn’t love ‘large and shabby’ Vera Stanhope, the blunt detective in Ann Cleeves’s Northumberland police procedurals? She is already one of the genre immortals. Cleeves delivers some choice Vera moments in The Darkest EveningThe New York Times
