Confession time. When I first watched Vera when it debuted in 2011, I had not read any of Ann Cleeves' series, which is super surprising for someone who has a deep love of British police procedurals, but even more shocking, I still haven't read any of this or any of her other series.
I made a goal in 2024 to read the first Stanhope novel, The Crow Trap, but didn't get it done. Same goal in 2025 with the same result, but now the time has come...I'm finally reading The Crow Trap.
From the cover: At an isolated cottage in the mountains, several very different women are thrown together as they complete an environmental study. Women who each know the meaning of betrayal.
Rachael, the team leader, is still reeling after a double betrayal by her lover and boss. Anne, a botanist, sees the survey as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. And then there is Grace, an uncommunicative and secretive young woman.
Rachael is the first to arrive at the cottage, but when she gets there she is shocked to discover an apparent suicide. It is only after another death occurs that a fourth woman enters the picture - the unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope.
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