Vera Stanhope · Book 11
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.
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