I didn't write a real review of this great book when I read it, mostly because Margaret from Books Please did such a great job. I must say this was a really good mystery, I truly didn't have a clue who dunit until the end. I also like the investigative teams dynamics, and the mystery in some of their characters.
Certainly a candidate for the Best New Author to me. Ann Cleeves does a outstanding job.
book description from Amazon.ca
This is the new novel in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope crime
series. DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her
hippy neighbours keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation so
she has more tolerance for them than most. When one of them goes missing
she feels duty-bound to find out what happened. But her path leads her
to more than a missing friend...It's an easy job to track the young
woman down to the Writer's House, a country retreat where aspiring
authors gather to workshop and work through their novels. It gets
complicated when a body is discovered and Vera's neighbour is found with
a knife in her hand. Calling in the team, Vera knows that she should
hand the case over to someone else. She's too close to the main suspect.
But the investigation is too tempting and she's never been one to
follow the rules. There seems to be no motive. No meaning to the crime.
Then another body is found, and Vera suspects that someone is playing
games with her. Somewhere there is a killer who has taken murder off the
page and is making it real...
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I will certainly be looking to read more of this authors works.
3 comments:
Sounds like a good read....this summer I still can't find time to go and get a good book to read.
Oooooh, a book about writers! I like the sound of that. I'll have to see if I can check this out at the library, dear Irene.
Sounds like a good series!
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