• Hidden Depths

  • A Vera Stanhope Mystery
  • By: Ann Cleeves
  • Narrated by: Ann Dover
  • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,192 ratings)

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Hidden Depths

By: Ann Cleeves
Narrated by: Ann Dover
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Publisher's summary

Published for the first time in the US, Hidden Depths is an early audiobook in Diamond Dagger award-winning crime author Ann Cleeves's Vera Stanhope series, brought to life in the hit TV series Vera.

On a hot summer on the Northumberland coast, Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son murdered. Luke has been strangled, laid out in a bath of water and covered with wild flowers. This stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera Stanhope and her team intrigued. But now, Vera must work quickly to find this killer who is making art out of death.

As local residents are forced to share their private lives, sinister secrets are slowly unearthed. And all the while the killer remains in their midst, waiting for an opportunity to prepare another beautiful, watery grave....

©2007 Ann Cleeves (P)2007 Isis Publishing Ltd.

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Another great Vera story

Fantastic stories, characters, and a perfect reader. A real pleasure. I love the TV show as well, and picture the wonderful Brenda Blethyn as I listen to the books.

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One of the best

I love all the Ann Cleeves books, but this was one of the best. Marvelous characters are always a wonderful part of her stories, and this one has a very interesting group to be sorted by the inimitable Vera Stanhope.

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Vera is the most compelling detective

Because she’s real. So real. Not secretly brilliant behind a brooding veneer. Not secretly desirable behind her distant broken demeanor. She’s a pissy, overweight, fallible, older woman. I just love this series.

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Excellent! My favorite! I love writing of Ann Cleeves and narrated by Ann Dover is superb! Hidden Depths is true about so call perfect love,marriage and friendship and was done wonderfully in every single way !

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Good book

I like hearing off the stories of Beers that I first watched on television.

The action is well paced and the characters developed nicely.

Well done.

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A multi-layered mystery

A complex, and very well written story. The narration is excellent. Ann Sleeves is as psychological as any therapist.

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Brilliant ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Her books just keep getting better and better. She is just a true storyteller and an artist as well. She sets the scene like no other author, when she’s describing the people, the places, locations in her book, you really feel like you are right there. You can smell the bacon sandwich or the beer in the pub...it’s uncanny how she truly transports the reader to Northumbria. It is just so cool. And the characters? Well you feel like you really know these people, that you get what they’re about and what drives them in general. You feel a part of something and it’s amazing. I have not one negative point for this book or the narration. A rare occurrence in such a saturated genre. Definitely worth your credit and time.
Narration is excellent.

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Ms. Cleeves always delivers!!!

Enjoyed this book because there was more information about Vera stanhope's relationship with her father and intermingled with the plot of this story makes me appreciate Vera's skills as q detective even more.

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Hooked

She keeps you guessing all the way to the end! It was very intriguing.

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Vera

I love the Vera Stanhope character. She's very human and relatable. Her character is awesome!

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