Telling Tales - Vera Stanhope, Bk 2 Author:Ann Cleeves It has been ten years since Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail Mantel. Now residents of the East Yorkshire village of Elvet are disturbed to hear of new evidence proving Jeanie's innocence. Abigail's killer is still at large. — For one young woman, Emma Bennett, the revelation brings back haunting memories... more » of her vibrant best friend -- and of that fearful winter's day when she had discovered her body lying cold in a ditch.
As Inspector Vera Stanhope makes fresh enquiries on the peninsula and villagers are hauled back to a time they hoped to forget, tensions begin to mount. But are people afraid of the killer or of their own guilty pasts?
|With each person's story revisited, the Inspector begins to suspect that some deadly secrets are threatening to unfurl.« less