Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, Book 2) by Ann Cleeves
By Ann Cleeves
Telling stories is the second one booklet in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope sequence – that's now an enormous ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn, VERA.
Ten years after Jeanie lengthy was once charged with the homicide of fifteen-year-old Abigail Mantel, aggravating new facts proving her innocence emerges within the East Yorkshire village of Elvet. Abigail's killer remains to be at large.
For Emma Bennett, the revelation brings again haunting thoughts of her bright ally – and of the frightened winter's day whilst she had found her physique mendacity chilly in a ditch.
Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope makes clean inquiries, and the villagers are hauled again to a time they might fairly disregard. Tensions start to mount, yet are humans frightened of the killer, or in their personal accountable pasts?
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I stopped and stared but he walked on without me. I hurried to catch up. “Back when Byrdie and her mama first came to Piney Grove to worship, there was an old busybody in the congregation by the name of Ethel Cox. She had something ill to say about everybody. My mama was in charge of organizing the bake sale that year and she held a meeting at our house. Well, there wasn’t much talk about a bake sale that night. It was stuffy so Mama had opened the windows. I stood outside smoking and heard the whole thing.
He’ll never leave Bloodroot Mountain because the Cotters have lived here for generations, but I wonder if he ever wants to dust his hands of this place and move on. Millertown was the big city to me back then, before I went to Knoxville with Daddy once to buy a washing machine. Now I see it for what it really is, a country town with old houses and glass-sprinkled lots and the smokestacks of dirty-looking factories looming over everything. The buildings on Main Street are falling into disrepair but they still have character, with tall windows and painted brick and arched doorways.
One time I caught him off by hisself hid in the corn patch, reading a book of poems. His face got red as a beet and he flew so mad I thought he was going to fight me, just because I knowed he liked to read poems. ” Mr. Barnett talked about Myra’s granny, too. He said he could see why Macon was drawn to Byrdie, even though she wasn’t much to look at. She was brash and sassy and tough. “I seen her bury every one of her children and take to her bed for months at a time,” Mr. Barnett said. “But someway she always got back on her feet.