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Harbour Street is the sixth book in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series - which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn as Vera.

A silent community. A murderer among them . . .

As the snow falls in Newcastle, Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter Jessie travel…

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2 authors picked Harbour Street as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love good mysteries and I love good storytelling. Ann Cleeves always delivers both. This is one of her Vera detective series, which also appears on BritBox with Brenda Blethyn as the opinionated and dogged detective-of-a-certain-age. Cleeves also writes the Shetland series, among others.


Vera’s an older woman who faces life and the worst that people can do to others with an unflinching honesty and a wicked sense of humor. This is the series I go to when I want an atmospheric read with interesting characters and a real puzzle of a mystery. Snow is falling and Christmas is coming…

I love good mysteries and I love good storytelling. Ann Cleeves always delivers both.

This is one of her Vera detective series, which also appears on BritBox with Brenda Blethyn as the opinionated and dogged detective-of-a-certain-age. Cleeves also writes the Shetland series, among others.

Vera’s an older woman who faces life and the worst that people can do to others with an unflinching honesty and a wicked sense of humor. This is the series I go to when I want an atmospheric read with interesting characters and a real puzzle of a mystery.

Snow is falling and Christmas is coming…

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