Vera Stanhope · Book 3

Hidden Depths

by Ann Cleeves

Published
1 January 2007
Pages
368
ISBN-13
9780330523035
Type
novel

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Cover of Hidden Depths

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.

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…

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