The Glass Room

A scream. It seemed hardly human and was without age or gender: loud and piercing and terrifying.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.Calling in the team, 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.'An interesting novel studded with acute observations about crime writing' Literary Review'Beware the author with a big imagination and criminal intent. This shattering plot involves DI Vera Stanhope on the trail of one of her hippy neighbours who'd gone off to hole up in a writers' retreat. When a body is discovered, is someone taking murder off the page?' Daily [email protected]/anncleeves von Cleeves, Ann