The Seagull
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4.3 • 110 Ratings
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- £4.99
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
The Seagull is the eighth book in Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope series – which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn as Vera.
Obsession never dies . . .
When prison inmate and former police officer John Brace says he’s willing to give up information about the location of a dead body in return for protection for his family, Vera knows that she has to look into his claims.
But opening up this cold case strikes much closer to home than Vera anticipates as her investigation takes her back in time to The Seagull, a once-decadent and now-derelict nightclub where her deceased father and his friends used to congregate.
As Vera’s past collides dangerously with the present, she will have to confront her unwanted memories and face the possibility that her father was involved in what happened. The truth is about to come out, but is Vera ready for what it will reveal?
Enjoy more of Vera Stanhope’s investigations with The Crow Trap, The Moth Catcher and The Darkest Evening.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A prison outreach leads to a meeting between Vera Stanhope and John Brace, a now-incarcerated corrupt former police superintendent, in Diamond Dagger Award winner Cleeves's engrossing eighth mystery featuring the Northumbrian detective inspector (after 2016's The Moth Catcher). Brace, part of the criminal Gang of Four led by Vera's father, Hector, asks her to help his troubled daughter, Patty, and in return promises to disclose the burial site of another Gang of Four member who's been missing for two decades. When Vera's team investigates, they find a second skeleton that of a young woman who might be Patty's birth mother. Their search for her identity reaches back to the 1990s, when an elegant club called the Seagull dominated the waterfront in northern Whitley Bay, England, and the Gang of Four graduated from the illegal animal trade to human trafficking and murder. Details about Hector's crimes and dismissiveness toward his daughter provide insight into Vera's formative years. This nuanced, adroitly paced tale should satisfy both series fans and new readers.
