The Crow Trap
- Published
- 1 January 1999
- Pages
- 532
- ISBN-13
- 9781250122759
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Crow Trap (1999, 532 pages) launched the Vera Stanhope series, though it was originally written as a standalone years before Ann Cleeves developed it into one -- so Vera herself is a supporting character in her own debut rather than the clear lead she becomes from Telling Tales onward. It's set on the bleak, beautiful Northumberland coast that anchors every book to follow.
Key facts about The Crow Trap
The Crow Trap is a novel by Ann Cleeves. Readers have had it since 1999. It runs to 532 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Crow Trap. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781250122759 to find the main one.
The Crow Trap is book 1 of 13 in the Vera Stanhope series. The series has 13 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. 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
The Crow Trap is book 1 in the Vera Stanhope series. It is followed by Telling Tales. 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 9781250122759