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CLEEVES ANN THE DARK WIVES

One of Britain's best crime writers' - Daily Express  A LOCAL MYTH. A DEADLY THREAT. Vera
Stanhope  star of ITV's Vera  returns in the eleventh novel in Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller
Ann Cleeves's acclaimed series.  A body is found by an early morning dog walker on the common
outside Rosebank  a care home for troubled teens. The victim is Josh  a staff member  who never
showed up to work.  DI Vera Stanhope is called out to investigate. Her only clue is the
disappearance of fourteen-year-old resident Chloe. Vera can't bring herself to believe that a
teenager is responsible for the murder  but even she can't dismiss the possibility.  Vera  Joe
and new team member Rosie are soon embroiled in the case  but when a second body is found near
the Three Dark Wives standing stones in the wilds of the Northumbrian countryside  folklore and
fact begin to collide.  Vera knows she has to find Chloe to get to the truth  but it seems that
the dark secrets in their community may be far more dangerous than she could ever have believed
. . .  'Like Rendell and James before her  like McDermid and Rankin today  Ann Cleeves is one
of our secret chroniclers  charting - under cover of a series of expertly plotted and
mesmerising crime novels - how we live now' - Mick Herron  author of Slow Horses

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