The release date for the English version of 'The Crow Trap' by
Ann Cleeves is Oct 2001. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The Crow Trap, which was released in 1999 and is now available in a new version, features Vera Stanhope for the first time. It is the third episode of the TV series Vera, which Stephen Brady adapted.
Three very different ladies join together at the remote Baikie's Cottage on the North Pennines to do an environmental assessment. Three ladies who understand what it means to betray someone in one way or another...
Rachael Lambert, the team leader, sees the project as the ideal chance to regain her self-esteem after two betrayals by Peter Kemp, her employer and boyfriend. Conversely, botanist Anne Preece views it as an opportunity to engage in a little self-deception. Then there is Grace Fulwell, a peculiar, reserved young lady who has a lot of secrets of her own.
But Rachael is shocked to see her friend Bella Furness's dead when she gets at the cabin. It seems that Bella committed suicide, which is a conclusion Rachael is unable to come to terms with.
The unusual Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope, who must piece together the truth from these women's complicated lives, only enters the picture after the next death.