Vera Stanhope · Book 5
The Glass Room
- Published
- 1 January 2012
- Pages
- 363
- ISBN-13
- 9781250135728
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Glass Room (2012, 363 pages) holds the fifth position in the Vera Stanhope series, continuing Ann Cleeves's melancholy, character-first approach to British procedural mystery -- the deliberately unglamorous DI reading people precisely because she's spent a lifetime being underestimated by them.
Its place in Vera Stanhope
The Glass Room is book 5 in the Vera Stanhope series. It follows Silent Voices. It is followed by Harbour Street. 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 9780330512701
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250135728