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From Ann Cleevesâ??New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV showsâ??comes Harbour Street. "Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers."â??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 compli… (mais)
A woman is stabbed aboard a train in which Joe and his daughter are passengers. The deceased woman resided at a boarding house on Harbour Street. The woman loved doing good works for the unfortunate, particularly women with a less than savory past. The more they investigate, the more Vera is convinced the murder is tied to the woman's past. What is the woman's well-guarded secret? Other secrets might be uncovered during the investigation as well. The setting is in the days leading up to Christmas although it's not really a Christmas story. ( )
Vera investigates the murder on a train of a woman who is a long time lodger of a once famous musician.
I was convinced the lover of one of the characters would turn out to be her father. Was this a red herring, or was I just making connections where none existed?
An interesting mix of characters. And I do like how Vera is depicted, a hard-worker who is a bit lonely, which makes for a sympathetic detective. ( )
Vera Stanhope's protege, Joe Ashforth, and his young daughter Jessie are on scene when a saintly elderly woman is stabbed on the crowded Metro shortly before Christmas. Although neither of them witness the actual crime (and no one else in the carriage seems to have seen it either), it is poor Jessie who discovers that the woman is dead. As Vera's investigation proceeds, everyone's past seems to hold clues, and the dead woman's history is particularly interesting to Vera, although honestly not terribly surprising to this reader. There are many connections among characters, and we bite our nails waiting for the inevitable peril our girl Jessie must find herself in (nice twist on that, though). I still struggle with the author's attitude toward her main character--I feel Cleeves does not like Vera very much, and certainly does not approve of her personal habits. Yet she has created a complicated woman with emotional baggage, whose skills and talents are admirable, who recognizes her own prejudices but does little about them, and who makes some nearly earnest attempts to modify her behavior for the sake of her health, not her appearance. ( )
From Ann Cleevesâ??New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV showsâ??comes Harbour Street. "Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers."â??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 compli
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