Vera Stanhope · Book 8
The Seagull
- Published
- 1 January 2017
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN-13
- 9783499275982
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Seagull (2017, 416 pages) is the eighth Vera Stanhope novel, sustaining Ann Cleeves's grounded, atmosphere-heavy take on the British procedural, with the North East coastal setting still doing much of the emotional work.
Its place in Vera Stanhope
The Seagull is book 8 in the Vera Stanhope series. It follows The Moth Catcher. It is followed by Frozen. 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 9783499275982