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A review by jennie_cole
The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves
4.0
The Darkest Evening is the 9th book in the Vera Stanhope series. Now I have not read any of these books nor seen the TV show based on them but I had no trouble understanding the characters and relationships. So often you need to have read the previous books to fully get references but not this one (however, I might go back to find out why Vera had a fire at her cottage). So don't feel like you have to go back and read them all in order to enjoy this one.
One late December Evening as Vera gets lost driving home in a snow storm she comes upon a car abandoned by the side of the road. To her surprise there is a baby inside. Vera takes the baby to the nearest house, which happens to be her ancestral home. No one knows who the baby belongs to until the body of a young woman is found in the snow right outside the house. Questions arise, why was this woman there, who is the baby's father, where was she killed. Over the next couple of days these questions get answered as well as some old village gossips gets laid to rest.
This is one of those mystery books that reads so well and quickly that I read it in two days (had to work and sleep you know). Ann Cleeves writes in such a way that while I have never been anywhere near Newcastle I got a feeling of the area, the towns, the homes, and the people. If I have time I might add the previous eight novels to me TBR list.
One late December Evening as Vera gets lost driving home in a snow storm she comes upon a car abandoned by the side of the road. To her surprise there is a baby inside. Vera takes the baby to the nearest house, which happens to be her ancestral home. No one knows who the baby belongs to until the body of a young woman is found in the snow right outside the house. Questions arise, why was this woman there, who is the baby's father, where was she killed. Over the next couple of days these questions get answered as well as some old village gossips gets laid to rest.
This is one of those mystery books that reads so well and quickly that I read it in two days (had to work and sleep you know). Ann Cleeves writes in such a way that while I have never been anywhere near Newcastle I got a feeling of the area, the towns, the homes, and the people. If I have time I might add the previous eight novels to me TBR list.