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Telling Tales (Hardcover)

by Ann Cleeves (Author)
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Macmillan (7 Jan 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1405046473
  • ISBN-13: 978-1405046473
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.8 x 4.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,078,714 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"'Cleeves again excels in her sense of place... A cleverly plotted psychological thriller', The Times; 'Puts Ms Cleeves in the Rendell class' Peterborough Evening Telegraph"


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It has been ten years since Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail Mantel. Now residents of the East Yorkshire village of Elvet are disturbed to hear of new evidence proving Jeanie’s innocence. Abigail’s killer is still at large.

For one young woman, Emma Bennett, the revelation brings back haunting memories of her vibrant best friend - and of that fearful winter's day when she had discovered her body lying cold in a ditch.

As Inspector Vera Stanhope makes fresh enquiries on the peninsula and villagers are hauled back to a time they hoped to forget, tensions begin to mount. But are people afraid of the killer, or of their own guilty pasts?

With each person’s story revisited, the Inspector begins to suspect that some deadly secrets are threatening to unfurl . . .

Praise for Ann Cleeves:

‘Cleeves again excels in her sense of place . . . A cleverly plotted psychological thriller’, THE TIMES

'Puts Ms Cleeves in the Rendell class' PETERBOROUGH EVENING TELEGRAPH

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4.0 out of 5 stars Put your feet up and enjoy, 22 Jan 2009
By Martin A. Chambers (U.K.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Telling Tales (Paperback)
Ann Cleeves is an excellent writer, "Telling Tales" fits the usual quality. A young girl has been murdered, and her supposed killer convicted and sent to prison. As the novel opens the killer who has always protested her innocence commits suicide. Then as a "cold case" Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope moves in, every character in the book comes under suspicion, is cleared and comes under suspicion again. It's a strange skill possessed by Cleeves, but the more she makes the character of the detective unlovable, the more you are drawn to her. Criticisms? Yes and it's a pet hate of mine with female writers and that is the use of first names for characters when such use jars. The lead character Emma Bennett's parents are referred to by their first names even when it's Emma thinking about them, it just doesn't feel right. If you like detective fiction you will enjoy this book, so buy it, curl your feet up, pour yourself a glass of scotch (and another for Vera Stanhope) and enjoy an evening in.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Telling Tales., 29 Jan 2009
This review is from: Telling Tales (Paperback)
This was another fine yarn and though I preferred some of her other stories I would definitely advise this for a good read.
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