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cynthiam 's review for:
The Darkest Evening
by Ann Cleeves
This is one in the series of Detective Vera Stanhope novels written by Cleeves. In this one, Detective Stanhope is driving on her way home through the countryside as snow is falling. She misses a turn and comes across a stalled car. The driver is nowhere to be found, but there is a toddler in the backseat. Vera takes the child to the nearest house to call for help. That house turns out to be the rundown manor of her aunt and uncle. Soon enough a body, that of the toddler’s mother, is found and a murder investigation is underway. Who is the toddler’s father? Why was the mother out when the weather was turning bad? And how did the mother wind up dead some distance away from the car and the toddler? This is a well-written story in the style popularized by Agatha Christie of “And Then There Were None” and “Murder On The Orient Express”.