Vera Stanhope · Book 5

The Glass Room

Published
1 January 2012
Pages
363
ISBN-13
9781250135728
Type
novel
Cover of The Glass Room

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.

Key facts about The Glass Room

The Glass Room is a novel by Ann Cleeves. Readers have had it since 2012. It runs to 363 pages.

Our list holds 2 editions of The Glass Room. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781250135728 to find the main one.

The Glass Room is book 5 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 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…

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