The Dark Wives
- Published
- 27 August 2024
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9781250836854
- Type
- novel
About this book
At 400 pages, The Dark Wives (2024) is currently the latest entry in the Vera Stanhope series, following The Rising Tide as the eleventh full-length novel. Ann Cleeves has confirmed the next Vera novel will be the series' last, making this the current penultimate instalment in the DI's long-running story.
Key facts about The Dark Wives
The Dark Wives is a novel by Ann Cleeves. Readers have had it since 27 August 2024. It runs to 400 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of The Dark Wives. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781250836854 to find the main one.
The Dark Wives is book 13 of 13 in the Vera Stanhope series. The series has 13 published books. However, the series starts with The Crow Trap (1999). It is also the latest book in the series with a full release date.
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 Dark Wives is book 13 in the Vera Stanhope series. It follows The Rising Tide. 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 9781250836847
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250836854