“Telling Tales” - Ann Cleeves
⚓️ I love Vera Stanhope. She certainly cuts a unique image among modern fictional detectives. She’s neither Poirot nor Marple. Her knowledge of human psychcology doesn’t come to her from an academic or theoretical place; it comes from her own vulnerability. For her all her bossyness and bravado, she has a deeply empathetic heart and an iron will to see justice through. It’s very easy to cheer for her.
⚓️ TT begins much like book 1. Vera makes her appearance in much the same manner, albeit earlier in the novel. I found the mystery more compelling in TT than in “The Crow Trap”. The cast of village residents under suspicion were richer and more intriguiging.
⚓️ In TT, an old murder returns to a community’s consciousness after it is discovered in no uncertain terms, that the wrong person had been convicted and imprisoned. Can Vera right several wrongs and bring justice for the victims, the wrongly accused, and those who loved them?
⚓️ The motto of Vera Stanhope mysteries seems to be: small towns have lots of secrets.
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