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Author
Series
Vera Stanhope volume 9
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Taking a wrong turn in a snowstorm, Inspector Vera Stanhope finds a car with only a baby inside. With no cellphone service, she drives to the nearest house, which just happens to belong to her estranged relatives. Vera's cousin Juliet and Juliet's husband, Mark Bolitho, are giving a dinner party in hopes of courting prospective donors to support Mark's plan of converting their estate into an art center, promoting Mark's artistic interests and keeping...
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope volume 1
Language
English
Description
At an isolated cottage in the mountains, several very different women are thrown together because of an environmental study. Women who each know the meaning of betrayal. But when Rachel, the leader of the study, arrives at the cottage, she is horrified to discover a body. It is only after another death occurs that another woman enters the picture--the unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope. --Publisher
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope volume 7
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Life seems perfect in the quiet community of Valley Farm. Then a shocking discovery shatters the silence. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter, a young ecologist, to look after the place while they’re away. But his dead body is found by the side of the lane―a lonely place to die. When Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope arrives on the scene, she finds the body of a second man. What the two victims seem to have in common...
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope volume 6
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
The shouts and laughter of Christmas revelers break the muffled silence as Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter Jessie are swept along onto the Metro. But when the train is stopped due to the bad weather, Jessie notices that one lady hasn't left the train: Margaret Krukowski has been fatally stabbed. Why would anyone want to harm this reserved, elegant lady? Arriving at the scene, DI Vera Stanhope is relieved to have an excuse to escape the holiday...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her hippy neighbors keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation, and somehow bonds have formed. When one of them goes missing, Vera tracks the young woman down to the Writers' House, a country retreat where aspiring authors work on their stories. Things get complicated when a body is discovered, and Vera's neighbor is found with a knife in her hand. Calling in the team, Vera knows that...
6) Vera : set 4
Publisher
distributed by RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
Northumberland Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope and her partner, Detective Sergeant Joe Ashworth, work to unravel four new crimes.
7) Vera: set 5
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A cantankerous but brilliant detective solves unthinkable crimes in northeast England.
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope volume 10
Language
English
Description
For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend that they lost to the rising causeway tide five years later. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends are hiding, and whether the events of many years before...
9) Vera: set 6
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Includes four all-new, feature-length mysteries. From the death of a woman found on the Northumberland cliffs to the body of a fisherman pulled out of the sea, these cases prove to be some of the most difficult and emotional in Vera's career.
10) Vera: set 8
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
As disheveled and indomitable as ever, DCI Vera Stanhope leads her tightly knit team of Northumberland police through four more daunting cases. No one seems to know anything about the police officer whose body turns up in a slaughterhouse incinerator, the woman killed in a car crash meant to look like an accident, the suburban neighbor found dead in her back garden, and the teenager whose body floats to the surface of a reservoir. How will Vera break...
11) Vera: set 7
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope and her assistant Detective Sergeant Aiden Healy work to solve four more perplexing cases, set in rural Northumberland.
12) Vera: set 9
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The central character is Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope. Who is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. If she's lonely she doesn't show it and faces the world with caustic wit, guile, and courage. Her trusted an dlong suffering colleague is Sergeant Joe Ashworth. Together they approach every new case with unparalleled gusto and professionalism.
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