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Hidden Depths: "Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope is called in to take on her first murder case since the death of her father. A single mother has discovered the lifeless body of her strangled teenage son, poignantly placed in the bath surrounded by wild flowers. Vera and DS Joe Ashworth have barely begun their investigation when another body turns up – all signs pointing to a serial killer. But when the teenage boy’s sister provides a vital clue and then goes missing, Vera and Joe are forced to race against time to find the killer and save the missing girl’s life. Telling Tales It was only after Jeanie Long’s suicide hit the headlines that evidence came to light exonerating her for the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail Mantel 11 years before. Jeanie had always insisted she was innocent but no one, including her own family, believed her. Vera Stanhope sets out to retrospectively resolve the mystery of Abigail’s murder. Vera and her loyal team delve into the secrets and lies of a small community that continues to be rocked by Abigail’s murder. In her inimitable style, Vera strips back the varnish disguising the truth, but not before the case takes a violent and unexpected turn with another – potentially connected – murder. The Crow Trap A murder at a remote cottage takes Vera Stanhope back to a place full of childhood memories and an unsolved case from her earlier career. Delving into the local politics surrounding a controversial proposal to dig a quarry, Vera and her team find motives in the unlikeliest of places, shadowy liaisons and conflicting sympathies, until they realise that the truth could be hidden within the land itself. Little Lazarus A woman is brutally murdered in a hedgerow. Her son escapes the violent attack, only to fall through the ice of a frozen pond, where Vera finds him many minutes later. She wades in and pulls him out and, against all the odds, the boy survives. Vera, usually awkward and disinterested around children, finds a kindred spirit in the boy and begins to realise along the way that the key to the investigation lies deep in the child’s memory."