The Darkest Evening
- Published
- 1 January 2020
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9781509889525
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Darkest Evening (2020, 384 pages) slots into the Vera Stanhope series between the short e-story Frozen and the later e-short The Woman on the Island, continuing as the ninth full-length novel. Ann Cleeves keeps the focus on grief, isolation and community secrets over flashy plotting, true to the rest of the series.
Key facts about The Darkest Evening
Ann Cleeves wrote The Darkest Evening, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2020. The book has 384 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781509889525 to find the main one.
The Darkest Evening is book 10 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
The Darkest Evening is book 10 in the Vera Stanhope series. It follows Frozen. It is followed by The Woman on the Island. 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 9781250204523
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781509889525