Vera Stanhope, 2: Telling Tales (Hardcover)

from diana.hauser

TELLING TALES by Ann Cleeves is the second title in the Vera Stanhope series. I am just getting acquainted with Vera and I am glad I did. I segued into 'Vera' after reading Ann Cleeves' Shetland series. Inspector Stanhope is called in to reinvestigate a ten year old crime where a young woman, Jea...

from lauralkeet

A solid second novel in the Vera Stanhope mystery series. Vera is assigned to investigate a recently-reopened case, the murder of a 15-year-old girl ten years earlier. The scene is initially set by the victim's best friend, now married with a baby. Like any good mystery, there are a number of pot...

from Condorena

Vera Stanhope is one of the most interesting characters in detective fiction that I have come across in a while. She looks and dresses like a bag lady because of an unfortunate figure and a recalcitrant skin condition. She is frequently underestimated and often over looked so he has developed a p...

from Icewineanne

This is the second book in the Vera Stanhope series, and it is also the second book that I have read by Ann Cleeves. I love Ann's writing. As with her first book in the series, she doesn't begin the story with her detective, rather she starts with the stories of all of the other fascinating chara...

from Romonko

I first met Inspector Vera Stanhope on a television series on public television. I enjoyed the series so much that I had to read the books. This is the second book in the Vera Stanhope series. We don't see Vera in this book until about a third of the way through, but we are introduced to some tru...