The Dark Wives

A thoroughly engrossing thriller

The Mail on Sunday

Cleeves’s Northumberland novels are strong on atmosphere, combining old-fashioned detective work with a modern take on class

The Sunday Times

Who doesn’t love ‘large and shabby’ Vera Stanhope, the blunt detective in Ann Cleeves’s Northumberland police procedurals? She is already one of the genre immortals. Cleeves delivers some choice Vera moments in The Darkest Evening

The New York Times