Ann Cleeves is winner of the Diamond Dagger Award 2017, Gold Dagger 2006, The Long Call,2019 so for sure they are great reading! She is the multi-million copy bestselling author behind two hit television series--Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall, and Vera, starring Academy Award Nominee Brenda Blethyn--both of which are watched and loved in the United States. "
In this one, DI Vera Stanhope has been pondering her age and health and wondering who she should "give the nod to" if,when she retires. The two youngest of her assistants both have qualities she admires (They don't really know this because she seldom compliments anyone" She has lived in this same area her whole life, in a remote cabin she inherited from her father in Northumberland close to the coast.
Synopsis below about a group of friends and former classmates meeting on Holy Island for 50 years. They meet in a rented house next to the Holy Island chapel and stay for the week-end. One of them ( a minor celebrity) does not live until the second day and is found hanging in the bedroom he always chose because it was not shared.
As Vera and her large crew stay over the weekend to try to solve this crime (hint..how did he die?) more deaths within their groups of friends are lost. The surprise ending really surprised ME! Get your copy now for Labor Day reading.
"Thanks to St. Martin's Press, Minotaur Books and especially author Ann Cleeves for book #10 on the Vera Stanhope series.
"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 could have led to murder then, and now . . ."
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