The Glass Room (Vera Stanhope)

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There are times when the TGR becomes introspective and slow, but gradually the pace and intrigue picks up after 30%, or so. So it is with The Glass Room: once you know the answer, the clues are readily identifiable, but few readers will arrive at the correct solution more than a few pages before it it revealed. Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc. It's also the twentyfifth novel of Ann Cleeves' writing career, which - together with much else - embraces the truly excellent Shetland Quartet, a series of four novels featuring the enigmatic Fair Isle-born DI Jimmy Perez. Most of the book, however, is filtered through Vera's, and occasionally Joe's, perspective, all of which give the author plenty of opportunity for astute comments on the publishing scene.

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She leaves behind no memories worth keeping: her husband is dead, her boss has made no bones about disliking her, and she’s looking forward to new responsibilities and the higher salary underwritten by North Dakota’s sudden oil boom. THE GLASS ROOM is a chatty, relaxing read rather than a cutting-edge slice of noir, with a well-constructed crime plot that will please the many fans of Vera. Vera may be fat and prone to wearing shapeless cardies and ugly sandals on her man sized feet but she's an astute observer of people.

The Glass Room is the fifth book in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series - now the major ITV detective drama Vera, starring Brenda Blethyn. If you like the TV series, you're in for a treat - because the atmospheric but realistic books are even better. Taking account of this distinction I have some misgivings about the closing scenes of the investigation, and I had similar misgivings about 'Hidden Depths', the third Vera Stanhope novel. Cleeves is very obviously having a little postmodern fun at the expense of her more pretentious peers.

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It’s a setup that leaves scant room for law enforcement officers or for Kyle Westergaard, the 12-year-old paperboy damaged since birth by fetal alcohol syndrome, who’s walked away from the wreck with a prize all too many people would kill for. DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her hippy neighbors keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation, and somehow bonds have formed. Exploring the backgrounds of the suspects is never an easy job when people lie to protect secrets often unrelated to the crime. The Glass Room was published in the US on April 24th 2018 by Minotaur Books, as a paperback original. If, after reading the book, you disagree with any of my meanderings, I'd much appreciate your comments - to which I promise to reply.The setting of the Vera Stanhope novels in the “windswept coastal villages and rolling moors of Northumberland” is another hook for dedicated readers. Set in the remote Scottish Shetland Islands, Cleeves’s taut, atmospheric thriller, the first in a new series, will keep readers guessing until the last page.

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To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The Glass Room is the fifth book in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series - which is now a major TV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn as Vera. Part of the story is told from the point of view of Nina, who in her academic role has reason to dislike the murder victim and who seems to be a target for someone's malice or worse. When they were alone at last, he sat with his wife on the sofa, his arm around her shoulders, cuddling together like teenagers.Lust that felt like adultery’ is what Joe is experiencing; it’s causing him to feel desperate and distracting him from the case. Newport, Rhode Island Murder at the Elms: A Gilded Newport Mystery Book takes place in another century, but similarities abound with life today in the United States. She’d never believed all the romantic crap about it being safe for country folk to leave their doors open. The setting of the Vera Stanhope stories—Northumberland, England’s northernmost county—lends itself to regional dialect. A second murder using a piece of fiction as a template forces Vera to dig even deeper to find the past secrets behind the present-day crimes.

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From CWA Diamond Dagger Award winner Ann Cleeves comes The Glass Room, the fifth book in the Vera Stanhope series, published for the first time in the US. The writing is excellent; the characterizations are wonderful -- nuanced and very credible (as usual); Cleeve's ear for dialog is terrific and her ability to conjure up atmosphere is spot on.A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. Artist and academic Lisa Perrin’s first book is a gorgeously illustrated and designed collection of biographies of that most romantic and maligned of villainesses: the poisoner. But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M.