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The seagull

Cleeves, Ann (author.).

Summary: 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. Brace was convicted of corruption and involvement in the death of a gamekeeper - and Vera played a part in his downfall. Brace promises Vera information about the disappearance of Robbie Marshall, a notorious wheeler-dealer, if she will look out for his daughter and grandchildren. He tells her that Marshall is dead, his body buried close to St Mary's Island in Whitley Bay. However, when a search team investigates, officers find not one skeleton, but two. This cold case takes Vera back in time, and very close to home, as Brace and Marshall, along with a mysterious stranger known only as `the Prof', were close friends of Hector, her father. Together, they were `the Gang of Four', and Hector had been one of the last people to see Marshall alive. Vera must confront her prejudices and unwanted memories to dig out the truth, as the past begins to collide dangerously with the present . . .

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  • ISBN: 9781447278375
  • ISBN: 1447278372
  • ISBN: 9781760555320
  • ISBN: 1760555320
  • ISBN: 9781447278344 (hbk.)
  • Physical Description: remote
    1 online resource.
  • Publisher: London, England : Macmillan, 2017.

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Subject: Stanhope, Vera -- Fiction
Women detectives -- England -- Fiction
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  • Pan Macmillan UK
    The Seagull is the eighth book in the Vera Stanhope series by Ann Cleeves, the number one bestselling author and creator of Vera, Shetland and the Two Rivers series.
  • Pan Macmillan UK

    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.

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