A review by pifflish
The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves

3.0

Perhaps I made the mistake of reading this after watching the show, because I just did not like the majority of the book. Vera doesn't appear as a speaking character until the halfway point and before that we have to suffer through a whole POV of the most aggravating homewrecker in the world. I would have actually preferred it if Vera hadn't shown up at all. Rachel and her mother were doing a pretty satisfying job of investigating and I would have been okay with seeing that through. Not the Vera book to start with, although I'll say it was a more rounded story than the adapted version for the show. Pretty solidly mediocre.