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    The Crow Trap
    The Crow Trap
    The Crow Trap
    Audiobook14 hours

    The Crow Trap

    Written by Ann Cleeves

    Narrated by Janine Birkett

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    • Rural Life

    • Family Relationships

    • Murder Investigation

    • Friendship

    • Self-Discovery

    • Amateur Detective

    • Love Triangle

    • Small Town Secrets

    • Small Town Mystery

    • Red Herring

    • Class Conflict

    • Secret Affair

    • Business Rivalry

    • Fish Out of Water

    • Secret Relationship

    • Family Secrets

    • Mental Health

    • Relationships

    • Mystery

    • Class Differences

    About this audiobook

    Introducing Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope.

    The Crow Trap is the first book in Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope series – which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn, Vera.

    Everyone has something to hide . . .

    Three very different women come together at an isolated cottage on the North Pennines to complete an environmental survey. Three women who each know the meaning of betrayal . . .

    Rachael, the team leader, is still reeling after a double betrayal by her lover and boss. Anne, a botanist, sees the survey as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. And then there is Grace, a strange, uncommunicative young woman, hiding plenty of her own secrets.

    Rachael is the first to arrive at the cottage, but when she gets there she is shocked to discover an apparent suicide. But then another death occurs, and a fourth woman enters the picture – the unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope, who must piece together the truth from these women’s tangled lives . . .

    Enjoy more of Vera Stanhope’s investigations with Telling Tales, Hidden Depths, and Silent Voices.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPan Macmillan
    Release dateAug 1, 2023
    ISBN9781035012688
    The Crow Trap
    Author

    Ann Cleeves

    Ann Cleeves is the author of more than thirty-five critically acclaimed novels, and in 2017 was awarded the highest accolade in crime writing, the CWA Diamond Dagger. She is the creator of popular detectives Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez and Matthew Venn, who can be found on television in ITV’s Vera, BBC One’s Shetland and ITV's The Long Call respectively. The TV series and the books they are based on have become international sensations, capturing the minds of millions worldwide. Ann worked as a probation officer, bird observatory cook and auxiliary coastguard before she started writing. She is a member of ‘Murder Squad’, working with other British northern writers to promote crime fiction. Ann also spends her time advocating for reading to improve health and wellbeing and supporting access to books. In 2021 her Reading for Wellbeing project launched with local authorities across the North East. She lives in North Tyneside where the Vera books are set.

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