From Ann Cleeves--New York Times bestselling and award-winning
author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV
shows--comes Harbour Street.
"Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers."--Louise Penny
As the snow falls thickly on Newcastle, the shouts and laughter of
Christmas revelers break the muffled silence. Detective Joe Ashworth and
his daughter Jessie are swept along in the jostling crowd onto the
Metro.
But when the train is stopped due to the bad weather, and the other
passengers fade into the swirling snow, Jessie notices that one lady
hasn't left the train: Margaret Krukowski has been fatally stabbed.
Arriving at the scene, DI Vera Stanhope is relieved to have an excuse to
escape the holiday festivities. As she stands on the silent,
snow-covered station platform, Vera feels a familiar buzz of
anticipation, sensing that this will be a complex and unusual case.
Then, just days later, a second woman is murdered. Vera knows that to
find the key to this new killing she needs to understand what had been
troubling Margaret so deeply before she died - before another life is
lost. She can feel in her bones that there's a link. Retracing
Margaret's final steps, Vera finds herself searching deep into the
hidden past of this seemingly innocent neighborhood, led by clues that
keep revolving around one street...Harbour Street.
Told with piercing prose and a forensic eye, Ann Cleeves' gripping novel
explores what happens when a community closes ranks to protect their
own-and at what point silent witnesses become complicit.
