Vera Stanhope · Book 6

Harbour Street

Published
1 January 2014
Pages
384
ISBN-13
9781466881051
Type
novel
Cover of Harbour Street

About this book

Harbour Street (2014, 384 pages) follows The Glass Room and precedes The Moth Catcher as the sixth Vera Stanhope novel. It keeps to the series' hallmark blend of procedural rigor and the bleak Northumberland coastal setting that functions almost as a character in its own right.

Key facts about Harbour Street

Harbour Street is a novel by Ann Cleeves. Readers have had it since 2014. It runs to 384 pages.

Our list holds 2 editions of Harbour Street. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781466881051 to find the main one.

Harbour Street is book 6 of 13 in the Vera Stanhope series. The series has 13 published books. However, the series starts with The Crow Trap (1999). The Dark Wives is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 27 August 2024.

Additionally, Ann Cleeves writes George and Molly Palmer-Jones, Inspector Ramsay and Shetland, plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our cozy mystery, police procedural and mystery shelves. Meanwhile, The Killing Stones is the latest published Ann Cleeves book on file, from 7 October 2025.

About Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves is an English crime writer whose atmospheric, character-driven procedurals are rooted in remote, weather-beaten landscapes she has often lived in herself. Early jobs cooking at a Fair Isle bird observatory and, later, years spent on the tidal, no-electricity Hilbre Island fed directly into her fiction. See every Ann Cleeves book in order.

Its place in Vera Stanhope

Harbour Street is book 6 in the Vera Stanhope series. It follows The Glass Room. It is followed by The Moth Catcher. See the full Vera Stanhope reading order.

DI Vera Stanhope is a rumpled, overweight, prickly detective working the Northumberland coast, and one of British crime fiction's most deliberately unglamorous protagonists: no tortured backstory played for sex appeal, no maverick charm, just a lonely, socially awkward woman who is very good at reading people precisely because she's spent a lifetime being underestimated by them. Ann Cleeves built the series around procedural rigor grounded in real police work and a strong sense of place — the bleak, beautiful…

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