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  • The Glass Room

  • Vera Stanhope, Book 5
  • By: Ann Cleeves
  • Narrated by: Janine Birkett
  • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (92 ratings)

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The Glass Room

By: Ann Cleeves
Narrated by: Janine Birkett
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Publisher's Summary

DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but when one of her neighbours goes missing, she feels duty-bound to find out what happened. It’s an easy job to track the young woman down to the Writers’ House, a country retreat where aspiring authors gather to work on their novels.

But things get complicated when a body is discovered and Vera’s neighbour is found with a knife in her hand. Vera knows that she should hand the case over to someone else. But the investigation is too tempting and she’s never been one to follow the rules.

Working with Sergeant Joe Ashworth, she starts the hunt for a murderer who has turned killing into an art form.

©2012 Ann Cleeves (P)2020 Isis Publishing Ltd

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Murdered the narrator. Please.

Can’t tell if the story is good or bad because the reader is truly unbearable. Hideous combination of a sing- song ‘every sentence ends softly with a half-question’ narrative voice with “oh hey how realistic” ‘rough as guts’ spoken accents. Story buried by the awful delivery. Couldn’t stand it though I tried hard.

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keeps you interested

Great story but spoiled by the terrible attempt at the accents not even close to Vera and the other characters were also disappointing...

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A bit tedious

I love Vera and was looking forward to this one. However I found it too trite and cliche ridden, even though it was clearly a parody of the genre, it was just too endlessly silly and I grew bored of it.

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