The Glass Room-------pan macmillan
The new novel in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope crime series
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Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her hippy
neighbours keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation so she
has more tolerance for them than most. When one of them goes missing she
feels duty-bound to find out what happened.
But her path leads her to more than a missing friend . . .
It’s
an easy job to track the young woman down to the Writer’s House, a
country retreat where aspiring authors gather to workshop and work
through their novels. It gets complicated when a body is discovered and
Vera’s neighbour is found with a knife in her hand.
Calling in the
team, Vera knows that she should hand the case over to someone else.
She’s too close to the main suspect. But the investigation is too
tempting and she’s never been one to follow the rules.
There seems to
be no motive. No meaning to the crime. Then another body is found, and
Vera suspects that someone is playing games with her. Somewhere there is
a killer who has taken murder off the page and is making it real . . .