Janine Birkett
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend that they lost to the rising causeway tide five years later. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends are hiding, and whether the events of many years before...
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
From Ann Cleeves-New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows-comes the stunning new Vera Stanhope novel, The Darkest Evening. Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers.-Louise Penny As a huge fan of both the Shetland and Vera series of books, I had high expectations for Cleeves' latest. . . . A stunning debut for Cleeves' latest crimefighter.-David Baldacci on The Long...
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"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 alone in the jostling crowd onto the Metro. But when the train is stopped due to the bad weather, and 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...
4) The seagull
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
An encounter with an old enemy draws Vera into a cold case investigation with ties to her father.
A visit to her local prison brings Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope face-to-face with and 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,...
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Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Panda, is planning to meet her suicide buddy, Marty, at midnight. Until then, she wants to experience Last Summer Night in Kirkwall, when, according to local legend, all those who should never be allowed out, come out.
She encounters some interesting people: Sigurd, and his feuding Viking family; her tattooed friend Martin, who is actually a girl and a criminal, of sorts; Noah, a visiting reporter and sometime relationship counsellor;...
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English
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The next gripping thriller from best-selling author J.A. Baker!
Welcome to Winters End...
Winters End should have been the perfect place for me and my husband Neil to start again. To leave the terrible secrets and guilt of our past far behind us.
But from the moment we arrived in the small, isolated community, it becomes clear to me that we are not welcome here. That someone wants us to leave…
I'm certain that everyone knows our secrets –...