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The Moth Catcher

Vera Stanhope, Book 7

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The Moth Catcher is the seventh book in Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope series – which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn as Vera.

As though to a flame, they were drawn to their deaths . . .

Life seems perfect in Valley Farm, a quiet community in Northumberland. Then a shocking discovery shatters the silence. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter, a young ecologist named Patrick, to look after the place while they’re away. But Patrick is found dead by the side of the lane into the valley – a beautiful, lonely place to die.

DI Vera Stanhope arrives on the scene and when searching the attic of the big house – where Patrick had a flat – she finds the body of a second man. The only thing connecting the two victims is a fascination with studying moths – and catching these beautiful, rare creatures.

Those who live in the close-knit Valley Farm development have secrets too, and as Vera is drawn into the claustrophobic world of this increasingly strange community, she realizes that there may be deadly secrets trapped there . . .

Enjoy more of Vera Stanhope’s investigations with The Seagull and The Darkest Evening.

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Vera, as always, is a delight
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Long addictive and as always the outcome unexpected. Good long satisfying read. Give yourself. A treat

Good long miser book

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I enjoyed everything about this book, the setting, plot and narration. The author paints vivid pictures and thus book’s length allows for multiple sub stories about the characters adding to the enjoyment

Compelling

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The readers accent and the smoothness of her voice thoroughly enjoyed every minute look forward to the nect

Love the readers accent. Thoroughly enjoyed this

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So enjoying the setting- i want to live in a place like that, oh, wait a mo, i do live in a place like that- ( without the murders) i feel so at home in this book and don't want it to end. And the differing characters feel so real. How does the author get inside peoples heads like this. ( the last one of the series, set in a seaside town with visits to the big city, and in the cold of midwinter, was less enjoyable for me)

one of the very best

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amazing loved it. read if you can, didn't know the killer til the end ofvthe story

Good book

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