Hidden Depths
- Published
- 1 January 2007
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9780330523035
- Type
- novel
About this book
Hidden Depths (2007, 368 pages) is the third Vera Stanhope novel, slotting in between Telling Tales and Silent Voices. Vera's relationship with her sergeant, Joe Ashworth, and the North East English coast's landscape continue to give the series its emotional throughline.
Key facts about Hidden Depths
Ann Cleeves wrote Hidden Depths, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2007. The book has 368 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780330523035 to find the main one.
Hidden Depths is book 3 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
Hidden Depths is book 3 in the Vera Stanhope series. It follows Telling Tales. It is followed by Silent Voices. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780330523035