Vera Stanhope · Book 12
The Rising Tide
- Published
- 1 September 2022
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9781509889624
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Rising Tide (2022, 384 pages) is the tenth full-length Vera Stanhope novel, following the e-short The Woman on the Island and preceding The Dark Wives. Ann Cleeves continues to root the procedural in the Northumberland coast's landscape and Vera's lived-in, underestimated persona.
Its place in Vera Stanhope
The Rising Tide is book 12 in the Vera Stanhope series. It follows The Woman on the Island. It is followed by The Dark Wives. 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 9798885781985
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781509889624