Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, 2)

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Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, 2)

Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, 2)

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The plot is one of Cleeves' strongest and, as always, I was drawn into the characters lives and relationships. Hopefully there will be more character-building in the third book which I will probably read at some point.

We also follow Jeanie's father who is a broken man after realizing that his daughter was innocent and he didn't see her or defend her. And in the end, those dots led to the doorstep of a killer that may have surprised both Vera and this reader.If a person's not heavily into birds - and Ann isn't - there's not much to do on Hilbre and that was when she started writing. A particular joy in Telling Tales was that Vera made four big grand entrances within the first one-hundred-pages with her thick legs, shapeless Crimplene clothes, open toed sandals and blotchy skin. It is a compelling mystery as a young woman is wrongfully accused of murdering her boyfriend's teenage daughter. A big thank-you to Ann Cleeves, Macmillan UK Audio, and NetGalley for arc in exchange for my honest review. Now, evidence has emerged that proves her innocence and means that Abigail’s killer still roams free.

It seems a bit strange that so much time goes into exploring Emma's life and family post-murder but it's engrossing and sets up the personality of the village and of Abigail herself. I had read The Crow Trap a couple of years ago and enjoyed very much, then got sidetracked by her Shetland series. She lives in a fantasy world and has daydreams of having an affair, but stands by her husband even if she finds him less exciting. Blessed with good looks Abigail could have any fellow she took a fancy to, including the much older ones as well.She seemed much less a shapeless lump and more of a whole person, with a possible life outside of whatever crisis she is investigating. Now Inspector Vera Stanhope is making fresh enquiries amongst the residents of Elvet, the small East Yorkshire village where Emma and Abigail grew up. Enter Vera and Joe who have been asked to look into this case and figure out who the first investigation got things wrong.

Despite looking on DS Joe Ashworth as an honorary son, she is not blind to his sentimentality and how easily he is fed a sob story. She has twice been short listed for a CWA Dagger Award - once for her short story The Plater, and the following year for the Dagger in the Library award. I found very few of the characters likeable, and even appreciated how one unreliable narrator was modeled after Emma Bovary (of Madame Bovary notoriety).

Ann's DI Vera Stanhope series of books is set in Northumberland and features the well loved detective along with her partner Joe Ashworth. It doesn’t take Vera too long to unsettle villagers and enthuse Elvet with her mischievous energy and get to grips with the very ferocity of human emotions and the lengths that it can drive people to. There was more information about her in this book than the first, but I haven’t been “grabbed” by this character yet. As Vera mobilises Jeanie’s father, a man who thought his own daughter guilty, and treats him with humanity and respect, she scours and scrutinises the Elvet grapevine for both scurrilous rumour and truth.



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