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Hidden Depths

A Vera Stanhope Mystery

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Hidden Depths

By: Ann Cleeves
Narrated by: Ann Dover
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Published for the first time in the US, Hidden Depths is an early audiobook in Diamond Dagger award-winning crime author Ann Cleeves's Vera Stanhope series, brought to life in the hit TV series Vera.

On a hot summer on the Northumberland coast, Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son murdered. Luke has been strangled, laid out in a bath of water and covered with wild flowers. This stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera Stanhope and her team intrigued. But now, Vera must work quickly to find this killer who is making art out of death.

As local residents are forced to share their private lives, sinister secrets are slowly unearthed. And all the while the killer remains in their midst, waiting for an opportunity to prepare another beautiful, watery grave....

©2007 Ann Cleeves (P)2007 Isis Publishing Ltd. Mystery Police Procedurals Women Sleuths
Complex Mystery • Intriguing Characters • Gripping Storyline • Engaging Plot • Superb Performance • Captivating Voice
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Fantastic stories, characters, and a perfect reader. A real pleasure. I love the TV show as well, and picture the wonderful Brenda Blethyn as I listen to the books.

Another great Vera story

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I love all the Ann Cleeves books, but this was one of the best. Marvelous characters are always a wonderful part of her stories, and this one has a very interesting group to be sorted by the inimitable Vera Stanhope.

One of the best

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I love Vera Stanhope tales and this is a good one. Vera is her same old overweight, drinks too much self. She attacks the mystery of the deaths with all her life skills and away we go. Loved it!

Just another great old Vera story

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Since everyone was a possible suspect, I couldn’t figure out the killer actually until it was revealed. I think this is Ann Cleeves’ best book yet. Ann Dover IS Vera. ‘Can’t wait for the next book in this series.

Vera at her best!

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Good mystery story and character development going in reverse. Since I’m listening to it, not visually reading it, at random times I lose track of who’s who especially when the first and last names are interchanged. So I was grateful for the nice wrap up at the conclusion. Loved the narrators talent w sublet accents and our main character and her flaws but persistence.

Vera and her flaws succeeds

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Because she’s real. So real. Not secretly brilliant behind a brooding veneer. Not secretly desirable behind her distant broken demeanor. She’s a pissy, overweight, fallible, older woman. I just love this series.

Vera is the most compelling detective

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Excellent! My favorite! I love writing of Ann Cleeves and narrated by Ann Dover is superb! Hidden Depths is true about so call perfect love,marriage and friendship and was done wonderfully in every single way !

Rene

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I like hearing off the stories of Beers that I first watched on television.

The action is well paced and the characters developed nicely.

Well done.

Good book

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A complex, and very well written story. The narration is excellent. Ann Sleeves is as psychological as any therapist.

A multi-layered mystery

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The character development and plot flow is exceptional. Love the visual words and audio performance!

Addictive

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