The Dark Wives

The Dark Wives: Signed Edition

Crime, Thrillers & True Crime, Crime & Thrillers
Hardback Published on: 29/08/2024
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The Dark Wives
A great addition to the series
I thoroughly enjoyed this latest installment of Cleeves' Vera series. I feel the team dynamics were better explored in this book than previously which I ap... READ MORE
Esme P.
The Dark Wives
Amazing!
I had never read an Ann Cleeves book before so when I got sent this one. I started reading it right away. I loved all the characters and storyline and it k... READ MORE
Nyah Clay

Synopsis

Vera Stanhope, star of ITV’s Vera, returns in the eleventh novel in Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller Ann Cleeves’ acclaimed series.

A body is found by an early morning dog walker on the common outside Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The victim is Josh, a staff member, who never showed up to work.

DI Vera Stanhope is called out to investigate. Her only clue is the disappearance of fourteen-year-old resident Chloe. Vera can’t bring herself to believe that a teenager is responsible for the murder, but even she can’t dismiss the possibility.

Vera, Joe and new team member Rosie are soon embroiled in the case, but when a second body is found near the Three Dark Wives standing stones in the wilds of the Northumbrian countryside, folklore and fact begin to collide.

Vera knows she has to find Chloe to get to the truth, but it seems that the dark secrets in their community may be far more dangerous than she could ever have believed.

  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • ISBN: 2928377268909
  • Number of pages: 384
  • Dimensions: 234 x 153 mm

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The Dark Wives
Fabulous read
This is my first outing of the Vera series and after reading this I will go back and read the others. I have watched the TV series and whilst reading this ... READ MORE
Michelle De Alwis
The Dark Wives
Great addition to the Vera Stanhope series
Another great read featuring Vera Stanhope. Vera is called in when a worker at a children's home is murdered and a teenage resident is missing. This ... READ MORE
Shirley Sinha
The Dark Wives
Dark Wives
The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves sees the very welcome return of indomitable,and self-proclaimed "old bag", Vera Stanhope. When the body of a young staff... READ MORE
David Blendell
The Dark Wives
Another cracking Vera story
Book 11 in the Vera Stanhope series and it’s another cracking read. Young teenager Chloe Spence is a real live wire of a girl who likes dressing as a Goth... READ MORE
Lynda Checkley
The Dark Wives
A DI Vera Stanhope mystery!
DI Vera Stanhope is called out to investigate when the body of Josh Woodburn is found on the common outside Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. Josh... READ MORE
Joan Clapham
The Dark Wives
The Dark Wives
I love this series, both in book form and the TV adaptations. I am a big Vera fan! Anyway, in this, her 11th literary outing, she, and her team, are calle... READ MORE
Ashrae
The Dark Wives
Another excellent read.
Another fast paced, gripping episode in the Vera series. The plotting is based around the disappearance of a teenage girl from a children's home and I was ... READ MORE
Martha Brindley
The Dark Wives
Another great read
Vera Stanhope #11 Vera is called to Rosebank children’s home to investigate the murder of Josh Woodburn, a university student and volunteer at the home.... READ MORE
Celia Short
The Dark Wives
Ann Cleeves delivers another winner with lots to think about
A Vera Stanhope story by Ann Cleeves is always something to look forward to and this eleventh book in the series is an absolute winner. Set against a ba... READ MORE
Stephen - the bookworm
The Dark Wives
Fastpaced and full of folklore
In between reading the 'Vera' books, I enjoy watching the tv show ‘Vera’, with Brenda Blethyn bring the title character so brilliantly to life. She has the... READ MORE
Maria's Book Musings
The Dark Wives
Pages fly by
The Dark Wives has Vera and her team investigating the death of a young man at a children's home for troubled children. One of the teens is also missing... READ MORE
Judy Odom
The Dark Wives
young girl disappears after a murder
Rosebank is a private care home for teenagers, owned by a private company but staffed and operated by the Social Services department of the local Council. ... READ MORE
Denis