Grace is the complete opposite – introverted, quiet, clearly unhappy. Anne is an extrovert, and has had a string of affairs, most recently with the man who wants to turn the land into a quarry.
The other two women on the team are strangers to Rachael and to each other. She knows Bella loves her life in this harsh landscape so when she arrives only to find Bella dead, hanged in the barn, she finds it hard to accept the official verdict of suicide. Rachael is the leader of the team, and knows the area well – her friend Bella lives on the neighbouring farm. Three women are staying at Baikie’s Cottage to carry out an environmental impact study on land which is earmarked to be turned into a quarry. (Feb.Is there an editor in the house? 🙂 🙂 🙂 Agent: Sarah Menguc, Sarah Menguc Literary Agent (U.K.). The Columbo-esque Vera, who hides a fierce intelligence and razor sharp instincts under garish clothing, uses every tool at her disposal to solve the crime. Cleeves thoroughly explores the passions and motivations of each, while exposing the human greed and sorrow beneath the bucolic landscape.
Though it offers a fine mystery, the story nevertheless belongs to its women. When a suicide and a murder rock the project, Vera must sift through the murk to catch a ruthless killer. Three very different women-team leader Rachael Lambert, botanist Anne Preece, and mammal expert Grace Fulwell-are conducting an environmental impact assessment to estimate the damage that a new quarry would do to a national park’s pristine land and wildlife. Fans of the Vera Stanhope novels already available in the U.S., as well as the TV series Vera, will welcome Cleeves’s intricate series opener (first published in 1998), which introduced the Northumberland detective inspector.
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