Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books, An imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Discovering the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, Inspector Vera Stanhope, hoping that she has uncovered a simple natural-causes death, subsequently finds strangle bruises that reveal that the victim was murdered.
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 7
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Life seems perfect in Valley Farm, a quiet community in Northumberland. Then a shocking discovery shatters the silence. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter to look after the place while they're away. But he is found dead by the side of the lane into the valley. DI Vera Stanhope arrives on the scene with her detectives Holly and Joe. When they look round the attic of the big house, Vera finds the body of a second man. As...
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Three very different women come together to complete an environmental survey. Three women who, in some way or another, know the meaning of betrayal ... For team leader Rachael Lambert the project is the perfect opportunity to rebuild her confidence after a double-betrayal by her lover and boss, Peter Kemp. Botanist Anne Preece, on the other hand, sees it as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. And then there is Grace Fulwell, a strange,...
4) The seagull
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
An encounter with an old enemy draws Vera into a cold case investigation with ties to her father.
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books, a Thomas Dunne Book
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her hippy neighbors keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation, and somehow bonds have formed. When one of them goes missing, Vera tracks the young woman down to the Writers' House, a country retreat where aspiring authors work on their stories. Things get complicated when a body is discovered, and Vera's neighbor is found with a knife in her hand. Calling in the team, Vera knows that...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend that they lost to the rising causeway tide five years later. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends are hiding, and whether the events of many years before...
Interlibrary Loan Request
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Des Moines Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? If the item was published recently, submit a purchase suggestion. Submit Request