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Cleeves, Ann, 1954-

The darkest evening / Ann Cleeves. - [Sydney, NSW] : Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, 2020. - viii, 372 pages ; 24 cm - Vera Stanhope 9 . - The Vera Stanhope series ; [9] . - Cleeves, Ann. Vera Stanhope series ; 9. .

"On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home in the hills. Though the road is familiar, she misses a turning and soon becomes lost and disorientated. A car has skidded off the narrow road in front of her, its door left open, and she stops to help. There is no driver to be seen, so Vera assumes that the owner has gone to find help. But a cry calls her back: a toddler is strapped in the back seat.Vera takes the child and, driving on, she arrives at a place she knows well. Brockburn is a large, grand house in the wilds of Northumberland, now a little shabby and run down. It's also where her father, Hector, grew up. Inside, there's a party in full swing: music, Christmas lights and laughter. Outside, unbeknownst to the revelers, a woman lies dead in the snow. As the blizzard traps the group deep in the freezing Northumberland countryside, Brockburn begins to give up its secrets, and as Vera digs deeper into her investigation, she also begins to uncover her family's complicated past."--Publisher description.

ISBN: 9781509889518 1509889515

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC082181 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 019834956 Uk

Subjects--Personal Names:
Stanhope, Vera (Fictitious character) --Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women detectives--England--Fiction.
Blizzards--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Abandoned children--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Northumberland (England)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Detective and mystery fiction.
Christmas fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: 823.92