Vera Stanhope · Book 4
Silent Voices
- Published
- 1 January 2010
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9780230745810
- Type
- novel

About this book
Silent Voices (2010, 352 pages) is the fourth entry in the Vera Stanhope series, sitting between Hidden Depths and The Glass Room. Ann Cleeves keeps the procedural grounded in real police work, with Vera's prickly, underestimated intelligence driving the investigation.
Its place in Vera Stanhope
Silent Voices is book 4 in the Vera Stanhope series. It follows Hidden Depths. It is followed by The Glass Room. 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 9781407920948
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780230745810