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By Cleeves, Ann2001, c1999., Adult, Pan Books Call No: SC MYS Fic Cle Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Vera Stanhope Volume: 1Summary Note: "At the isolated Baikie's Cottage on the North Pennines, three very different women come together to complete an environmental study. Three women who each know the meaning of betrayal... For team leader Rachael the project is the perfect opportunity to rebuild her confidence after a double -betrayal by her lover and boss, Peter Kemp. Botanist Anne, on the other hand, sees it as a chance to indulge in a little deceoption of her own. And then there is Grace, a strange, uncommunicative young woman with plenty of secrets of her own to hide... When Rachael arrives at the cottage, however, she is horrifed to discover the body of her friend Bella Furness. Bella, it appears, has committed suicide - a verdict Rachael finds impossible to accept. Only when the next death occurs does a fourth women enter the picture - the unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope..."--Back cover.
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By Cleeves, Ann2020., Adult, Macmillan Call No: MYS SC Fic Cle Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Vera Stanhope Volume: 9.Summary Note: On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home in the hills. Though the road is familiar, she misses a turning and soon becomes lost and disorientated. A car has skidded off the narrow road in front of her, its door left open, and she stops to help. There is no driver to be seen, so Vera assumes that the owner has gone to find help. But a cry calls her back: a toddler is strapped in the back seat.Vera takes the child and, driving on, she arrives at a place she knows well. Brockburn is a large, grand house in the wilds of Northumberland, now a little shabby and run down. It's also where her father, Hector, grew up. Inside, there's a party in full swing: music, Christmas lights and laughter. Outside, unbeknownst to the revelers, a woman lies dead in the snow. As the blizzard traps the group deep in the freezing Northumberland countryside, Brockburn begins to give up its secrets, and as Vera digs deeper into her investigation, she also begins to uncover her family's complicated past.
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By Cleeves, Ann2012., Adult, Macmillan Call No: MYS Fic Cle Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Vera Stanhope Volume: 5Summary Note: DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her hippy neighbours keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation so she has more tolerance for them than most. When one of them goes missing she feels duty-bound to find out what happened. But her path leads her to more than a missing friend ...It's an easy job to track the young woman down to the Writer's House, a country retreat where aspiring authors gather to workshop and work through their novels. It gets complicated when a body is discovered and Vera's neighbour is found with a knife in her hand. Calling in the team, Vera knows that she should hand the case over to someone else. She's too close to the main suspect. But the investigation is too tempting and she's never been one to follow the rules. Working with Sergeant Joe Ashworth, she starts the hunt for a murderer who is artistic as well as deadly. There seems to be no motive. No meaning to the crime.
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By Cleeves, Ann2014., Macmillan Call No: MYS Fic Cle Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Vera Stanhope Volume: 6Summary Note: aAs the snow falls thickly on Newcastle, the shouts and laughter of Christmas revellers 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 an old lady hasn't left the train: Margaret Krukowski has been fatally stabbed as she sat on the crowded train. Nobody, including the policeman himself, sees the stabbing take place. Margaret's murderer is seemingly invisible; her killing motiveless. Why would anyone want to harm this reserved, elegant lady?.
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By Cleeves, Ann2007., Macmillan Call No: NEW MYS SC Fic Cle Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Vera Stanhope Volume: 3
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By Cleeves, Ann2015., Adult, Macmillan Call No: MYS Fic Cle Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Vera Stanhope Volume: 7Summary Note: The Moth Catcher is the seventh book in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series - now the major ITV detective drama Vera, starring Brenda Blethyn. In a valley in Northumberland, a shocking discovery shatters the peace in a quiet farming community. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter, a young ecologist, to look after the place while they're visiting family in Australia. Then Percy, a retired farm labourer who lives with his divorced daughter in a development on the farmland, finds Patrick, the house-sitter, dead by the side of the lane on the way into the valley. Vera Stanhope arrives on the scene, with her detectives Holly and Joe. When Vera looks round the attic of the big house - where Patrick has a flat - she finds the body of a second man. He's middle-aged, grey. What could the two victims have in common? Why were they killed on the same day, but their bodies found in separate locations?.
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By Cleeves, Ann2022., Minotaur Books Call No: SC MYS Fic Cle Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Vera Stanhope Volume: 10Summary Note: When a member of a group of friends, who meet regularly for reunions on Holy Island, is found hanged, Vera Stanhope must discover what the friends are hiding and whether the events of many years before could have led to murder then, and now.
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By Cleeves, Ann2017., Adult, Macmillan Call No: MYS Fic Cle Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Vera Stanhope Volume: 8.Summary Note: "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 part in his downfall. Brace promises Vera information about the disappearance of Robbie Marshall, a notorious wheeler-dealer, if she will look out for his daughter and grandchildren. He tells her that Marshall is dead, his body 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 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', and Hector had been one of the last people to see Marshall alive. Vera must confront her prejudices and unwanted memories to dig out the truth, as the past begins to collide dangerously with the present..."--Publisher.
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By Cleeves, Annc2011., Macmillan Call No: MYS Fic Cle Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Vera Stanhope Volume: 4Summary Note: The new novel featuring Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope.When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, she wonders briefly if, for once in her life, she's uncovered a simple death from natural causes. But a closer inspection reveals ligature marks around the victim's throat - death is never that simple. Doing what she does best, Vera pulls her team together and sets them interviewing staff and those connected to the victim, while she and colleague, Sergeant Joe Ashworth, work to find a motive. While Joe struggles to reconcile his home life with the demands made on him by the job; Vera revels being back in charge of an investigation again. Death has never made her feel so alive. And when they discover that the victim had worked in social services, and had been involved in a shocking case involving a young child, then it appears obvious that the two are somehow connected. Though things are never as they seem.
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By Cleeves, Ann2006, c2005., Pan Call No: SC MYS Fic Cle Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Vera Stanhope Volume: 2Summary Note: "The residents of an East Yorkshire village are revisited with the nightmare of a murder that happened 10 years before. There was some doubt about the guilty verdict passed on Jeanie Long and now it would seem that the killer is still at large. Inspector Vera Stanhope builds up a picture of a community afraid of itself and of outsiders."--Fantastic Fiction website.
