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Vera Stanhope's final case takes her to Whitley Bay to investigate the murder of a local woman - and a reckoning with the legacy of the town's criminal past . . .
'Everything Ann Cleeves writes is incredible' - Richard Osman
'Ann Cleeves is stone genius' - Marian Keyes
'Ann Cleeves is the Queen of the detective novel, thrilling millions of readers' - Daily Express
“Who doesn’t love ‘large and shabby’ Vera Stanhope, the blunt detective in Ann Cleeves’s Northumberland police procedurals? She is already one of the genre immortals.”The New York Times, The New York Times
“Cleeves’s Northumberland novels are strong on atmosphere, combining old-fashioned detective work with a modern take on class”The Sunday Times, The Sunday Times
“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 mesmerizing crime novels – how we live now”Mick Herron
“Ann Cleeves’s elegance as a wordsmith, the ingenuity of her plots, and the depth of her characters can be matched by few writers.”David Baldacci
