Silent Voices

Resumen del libro

When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, she wonders briefly if, for once, it's a death from natural causes. But closer inspection reveals ligature marks around the victim's throat ...Doing what she does best, Vera pulls her team together and sets them interviewing staff and those connected to the victim, while she and colleague Sergeant Joe Ashworth work to find a motive. While Joe struggles to reconcile his home life with the demands of the job, Vera revels being back in charge of an investigation.

Death has never made her feel so alive. And when they discover that the victim had worked in social services and was involved in a shocking case involving a young child it seems the two are somehow connected. But things are rarely as they seem ...

Biografía del autor

p Ann Cleeves es una novelista británica, autora de i best sellers /i que han inspirado tres exitosas series de televisión: i Shetland, /i protagonizada por Douglas Henshall; i Vera, /i protagonizada por la nominada al Óscar Brenda Blethyn, e i Inspector Venn, /i protagonizada por Ben Aldridge.<br><br> i Cuervo negro /i ganó el prestigioso Gold Dagger de la Crime Writers' Association a la mejor novela negra, y Ann Cleeves recibió el Diamond Dagger de la CWA en 2017. En 2022 fue nombrada dama de la Orden del Imperio Británico por su contribución a las letras y la literatura.<br>