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.
Key facts about The Seagull
The Seagull is a novel by Ann Cleeves. Readers have had it since 2017. It runs to 416 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Seagull. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9783499275982 to find the main one.
The Seagull is book 8 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 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