Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, 2)

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Since then, whenever she wakes at night – to feed the baby or when James comes in late from work – the noise of the wind is there, rolling round her head like the sound of a seashell when you hold it to your ear. Even if you have faithfully watched every episode of the Vera series as I have, it will not affect your enjoyment of these novels one bit.

For one young woman, Emma Bennett, the revelation brings back haunting memories of her vibrant best friend--and of that fearful winter’s day when she had discovered her body lying cold in a ditch. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Raven Black is the first novel in Ann Cleeves’ crime fiction series Shetland, which is now a hit TV series on BBC One starring Douglas Henshall as Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez.And because we are the luckiest readers ever, Criminal Element’s Adam Wagner has designed a GIFnotes that gives you an idea of the storyline of Telling Tales without giving away so much as a spec of the solution to the mystery.

As time went by, I was totally frustrated by the fact that once a book was released in England, we here in the USA would have to sit around tapping our toes and watching reruns of the series while waiting for the book to be released in the United States. She told herself that she needed to see if he’d changed in the four years since she’d seen him last, but that wasn’t it. 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. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter, a young ecologist named Patrick, to look after the place while they're away. These novels, except for The Glass Room, have been dramatized in the television series Vera on ITV, which stars Brenda Blethyn in the title role.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.