Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, 2)

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As time went by, I was totally frustrated by the fact that once a book was released in England, we here in the USA would have to sit around tapping our toes and watching reruns of the series while waiting for the book to be released in the United States.

She is the creator of popular detectives Vera Stanhope and Jimmy Perez who can now be found on television in ITV's Vera and BBC One's Shetland. In black and gold and a bright arsenic green, this is undeniably one of the best-looking books about true crime to ever grace my desk. Now, evidence has emerged that proves her innocence and means that Abigail's killer still roams free.She had heard James moving around carefully downstairs, and the creaking stairs had prepared her for his entrance. Ten years after Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail Mantel, disturbing new evidence proving her innocence emerges in the East Yorkshire village of Elvet. Cleeves offers up evocative settings and flawed characters with depth, making her mysteries wonderfully addictive.

Also, on the screen we watch DCI Vera Stanhope work her magic, while in the novels the magic is more subtle and requires your absolute attention—which, I guarantee, you won’t mind giving. Rachael is the first to arrive at the cottage, where she discovers the body of her friend, Bella Furness.

A visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detective superintendent, and now inmate, John Brace. And because we are the luckiest readers ever, Criminal Element’s Adam Wagner has designed a GIFnotes that gives you an idea of the storyline of Telling Tales without giving away so much as a spec of the solution to the mystery. Agatha Award-winning novelist Terrie Farley Moranis the author of the beachside Read 'Em and Eat cozy mystery series.