The Woman on the Island
- Published
- 1 January 2022
- Pages
- 16
- ISBN-13
- 9781250877970
- Type
- short
About this book
Running 16 pages, The Woman on the Island (2022) is a short e-story continuing the Vera Stanhope series after The Darkest Evening, in the same optional-extra format as the earlier standalone e-short Frozen.
Key facts about The Woman on the Island
The Woman on the Island is a short story by Ann Cleeves. Readers have had it since 2022. It runs to 16 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Woman on the Island. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781250877970 to find the main one.
The Woman on the Island is book 11 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 Woman on the Island is book 11 in the Vera Stanhope series. It follows The Darkest Evening. It is followed by The Rising Tide. 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 9781250877970