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.
Key facts about Silent Voices
Ann Cleeves wrote Silent Voices, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2010. The book has 352 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780230745810 to find the main one.
Silent Voices is book 4 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
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