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Sun 18 May ’25 16:00 - 17:00
BFB3 Ann Cleeves
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BFB3 Ann Cleeves

Bath Festivals
Sun 18 May ’25 16:00 - 17:00
The Guildhall, BA1 5AW
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Sun 18 May ’25
16:00 - 17:00
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Join us for this fascinating in-conversation event with bestselling crime writer Ann Cleeves who talks to Literature Festival Guest Curator Joe Haddow about The Dark Wives, the latest novel in her ‘expertly plotted and mesmerising’ Vera Stanhope series.

In The Dark Wives, DCI Vera Stanhope is called to investigate the death of man whose body has been found outside a care home for troubled teens. Her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spence. When a second body is found near the Three Dark Wives standing stones in the wilds of the Northumbrian countryside, superstition and folklore begin to collide with fact.  Vera knows she has to find Chloe to get to the truth, but it seems that the dark secrets in their community may be far more dangerous than she could ever have believed possible.

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Like Rendell and James before her, like McDermid and Rankin today, Ann Cleeves is one of our secret chroniclers, charting – under cover of a series of expertly plotted and mesmerising crime novels – how we live now.

Mick Herron

"Cleeves’s Northumberland novels are strong on atmosphere, combining old-fashioned detective work with a modern take on class” The Sunday Times 

‘One of the best natural writers of detective fiction’ SUNDAY EXPRESS