In Newcastle, Detective Joe Ashworth and his
daughter are on the busy Metro when the train is stopped due to heavy snow. All
the passengers are told to disembark, but one cannot.....a seventy year old
lady remains in the carriage , stabbed to death.
Searching for a lead his boss, DI Vera
Stanhope heads to the dead woman's home, a quiet seaside town in
Northumberland.
This is a well-thought out and easy to
follow police investigation....the sixth in the Vera Stanhope series....and it
leads the reader along different layers and clues, with the odd red herring
thrown in., to a satisfactory conclusion.
Ann Cleeves draws her characters well, particularly that of Vera....they
come to life between the lines.
This is a good read. The whole series brings beautiful Northumberland to life and with a
murder thrown it it ticks the box for me.
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