The Woman on the Island

Download or read book The Woman on the Island written by Ann Cleeves and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Cleeves returns with a delicious short story featuring DCI Vera Stanhope. Set before The Rising Tide, Vera goes on a day trip to Holy Island, eager to escape the pressures of work. When there she is reminded of the day decades earlier when she, as a teenager, went with her father Hector on another day trip, and the mystery woman he met there . . . Vera already knew then that Hector kept secrets, but this time the fledgling investigator was determined to find the truth, never realizing it would mean taking her first step onto a path to becoming a detective . . .