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'Another classic...skillfully crafted mystery.'
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Sunday Telegraph
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contemporary setting by Ann Cleeves...skilfully crafted' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Hidden Depths is an engrossing murder mystery that keeps you guessing right up to the last chapter. It's beautifully written and Ann Cleeves really conjures up the atmosphere, close-knit communities and landscape of the north east of England, where the action takes place. Detective Vera Stanhope is not your typical copper and her complex character has lots of northern humour and humanity but also plenty of inner demons. She has to unravel the motives and find out what, if anything, links the bizarre murders of a beautiful teenage boy and a young woman teacher with a mysterious past. Their bodies are both found submerged in water and strewn with flowers and suspicion falls on a group of close friends. The psychology of the characters is probed in turn and there are plenty of red herrings along the way before a cracking finale. This is a very skilful, literate and hugely enjoyable book.
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Twelve-year-old Luke Armstrong is a troubled boy, diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. His only friend, Thomas, drowned several months ago despite Luke's best efforts to save him. So when Luke's mother discovers her son dead in the bath, her first reaction is suicide. But there are flowers strewn in the bath, floating on the water, and the police quickly establish that he was murdered. Surely he couldn't have been murdered at home with his fourteen-year-old sister sleeping in the next room?
Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope is assigned the case. Because Vera is plain, overweight, middle-aged and drinks to a little too much, it's very easy for people to underestimate her. Just because people dismiss her a plodding lump doesn't mean that she doesn't have a keen mind.
The case takes on a new urgency when another body, that of Lily, a young student teacher, is found floating in a rock pool at the beach, her body posed in the same way as Luke's.
Vera's attention turns to the group who found Lily,four men who share a keen interest in bird-watching. All deny knowing Lily and the other victim, Luke, but are they telling the truth? Vera becomes convinced that the solution lies somewhere in their lives, but where? And what is the connection between the two victims? Indeed, is there one at all, or have they been chosen at random?
The author, Ann Cleeves has a gift for setting. Her previous novel, RAVEN BLACK, set in the Shetland Islands, evoked a very strong sense of place. Likewise, HIDDEN DEPTHS is very clearly a novel of North-East England: there's something in Vera's outlook on life and her persona that I can't quite pin down
HIDDEN DEPTHS is the third in the Vera Stanhope series and was my first encounter with her. I had read several chapters before I realised that I hardly knew anything about her. I thought perhaps this was going to be a book where the detective was merely a device to access the mystery. However Vera's character and life are slowly revealed through her thoughts and feelings. It's a very clever way of doing it and for me, heightened my interest. By the time I'd finished the book I felt I knew Vera quite well.
Ann Cleeves has two successful series under her belt: George and Mary-Palmer Jones, amateur sleuths and bird-watchers; and the Inspector Ramsay series. Not content with that, RAVEN BLACK was the first in a planned quartet of books based in the Shetland Islands and of course, there is the Vera Stanhope series. There are also a number of standalone novels to her name.
For readers like me who are unashamed fans of Cleeves' writing, there is plenty to choose from. If you are a reader of crime fiction and you
haven't yet met any of Ann Cleeves' characters, then you are in for a treat.
Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope is assigned the case. Because Vera is plain, overweight, middle-aged and drinks to a little too much, it's very easy for people to underestimate her. Just because people dismiss her a plodding lump doesn't mean that she doesn't have a keen mind.
The case takes on a new urgency when another body, that of Lily, a young student teacher, is found floating in a rock pool at the beach, her body posed in the same way as Luke's.
Vera's attention turns to the group who found Lily,four men who share a keen interest in bird-watching. All deny knowing Lily and the other victim, Luke, but are they telling the truth? Vera becomes convinced that the solution lies somewhere in their lives, but where? And what is the connection between the two victims? Indeed, is there one at all, or have they been chosen at random?
The author, Ann Cleeves has a gift for setting. Her previous novel, RAVEN BLACK, set in the Shetland Islands, evoked a very strong sense of place. Likewise, HIDDEN DEPTHS is very clearly a novel of North-East England: there's something in Vera's outlook on life and her persona that I can't quite pin down
HIDDEN DEPTHS is the third in the Vera Stanhope series and was my first encounter with her. I had read several chapters before I realised that I hardly knew anything about her. I thought perhaps this was going to be a book where the detective was merely a device to access the mystery. However Vera's character and life are slowly revealed through her thoughts and feelings. It's a very clever way of doing it and for me, heightened my interest. By the time I'd finished the book I felt I knew Vera quite well.
Ann Cleeves has two successful series under her belt: George and Mary-Palmer Jones, amateur sleuths and bird-watchers; and the Inspector Ramsay series. Not content with that, RAVEN BLACK was the first in a planned quartet of books based in the Shetland Islands and of course, there is the Vera Stanhope series. There are also a number of standalone novels to her name.
For readers like me who are unashamed fans of Cleeves' writing, there is plenty to choose from. If you are a reader of crime fiction and you
haven't yet met any of Ann Cleeves' characters, then you are in for a treat.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
After winning the dagger award for her last book the author returns to Northumberland with her detective Vera Stanhope. The opening chapter entices you into the story and the twist at the end is good. The characters are believable and the artistic touches surrounding the deaths are very visual. On the whole I think I enjoyed this book more than Raven Black so keep up the good work. Catch Ann while she is still on the boil!
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another great read from amazon
ann cleeves has really got me hooked, this book is as good as the last one i didnt want to put it down,
Published 14 days ago by hazy
A good read, made more exciting by the ITV Drama.
Purchased as an experiment to compare to the ITV drama VERA.
In fact reading the book made me understand more of what was said in the programme as a northern accent can... Read more
In fact reading the book made me understand more of what was said in the programme as a northern accent can... Read more
Published 12 months ago by B. Gransden
Engrossing north east mystery
Having enjoyed Ann Cleeves's Shetland Quartet, I was keen to sample more of her detective writing, and although not quite in the same league as the Shetland Quartet, I wasn't... Read more
Published 13 months ago by joc66
Loving this!
I got this sent to me as a gift and am so thrilled. It's the first of the Vera Stanhope books I have read and I am thoroughly enjoying it. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Ruthie
A pretty good mystery
Vera Stanhope, a rather large policewoman with a fondness for the bottle, tries to identify the killer of two people who seem unrelated yet are murdered in similar... Read more
Published 16 months ago by johnverp
Happy families?
Divorced mother of two Julie Armstrong arrives home after a night on the town. She's just met a terrific guy and, as she opens the door, she feels that her life might be about to... Read more
Published 16 months ago by hbw
Murder mystery detective story
After reading Ann Cleeves Shetland Quartet- which I loved, I decided to give Vera Stanhope a try and found this on par. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Book lover
Hidden Depths
It was not as good as her latewr books, I felt the story did not hang together as well as her other books
Published on 9 May 2010 by Mrs E. O'Reilly
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