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Vera Stanhope Books in Order

Vera Stanhope by Ann Cleeves contains 13 books, published between 1999 and 2024. The first book is The Crow Trap (1999) and the newest is The Dark Wives (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
13
Published
1999–2024
Confirmed
13 of 13 titles
Pages on record
2,220 in 6 of 13 books
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Vera Stanhope is Ann Cleeves's police procedural series about a detective working murder investigations in the north of England. The Crow Trap (1999) opens the run, which reaches 13 books and The Dark Wives in 2024. Entries appear roughly every two years and median 378 pages. The 2020s have been the busiest decade for the series, which remains ongoing.

How many Vera Stanhope books are there?

Vera Stanhope has 13 books, released between 1999 and 2024.

Vera Stanhope Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 13 Vera Stanhope books in the order they were released, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves, book 1 of the Vera Stanhope series (1999)
  2. Cover of Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves, book 2 of the Vera Stanhope series (2005)
  3. Cover of Hidden Depths by Ann Cleeves, book 3 of the Vera Stanhope series (2007)
  4. Cover of Silent Voices by Ann Cleeves, book 4 of the Vera Stanhope series (2010)
  5. Cover of The Glass Room by Ann Cleeves, book 5 of the Vera Stanhope series (2012)
  6. Cover of Harbour Street by Ann Cleeves, book 6 of the Vera Stanhope series (2014)
  7. Cover of The Moth Catcher by Ann Cleeves, book 7 of the Vera Stanhope series (2015)
  8. Cover of The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves, book 10 of the Vera Stanhope series (2020)
  9. Cover of The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves, book 12 of the Vera Stanhope series (2022)
  1. 1
    The Crow Trap1999 · 352 pages · confirmed 4/4
    1999352
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  2. 2
    Telling Tales2005 · 400 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2005400
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  3. 3
    Hidden Depths2007 · confirmed 4/4
    2007–
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  4. 4
    Silent Voices2010 · 314 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2010314
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  5. 5
    The Glass Room2012 · 373 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2012373
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  6. 6
    Harbour Street2014 · confirmed 4/4
    2014–
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  7. 7
    The Moth Catcher2015 · confirmed 4/4
    2015–
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  8. 8
    The Seagull2017 · 397 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2017397
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  9. 9
    Frozen2020 · confirmed 4/4
    2020–
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  10. 10
    The Darkest Evening2020 · 384 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2020384
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  11. 11
    The Woman on the Island2022 · confirmed 4/4
    2022–
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  12. 12
    The Rising Tide2022 · confirmed 4/4
    2022–
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  13. 13
    The Dark Wives2024 · confirmed 4/4
    2024–
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Vera Stanhope Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Vera Stanhope books run from The Crow Trap (1999) to The Dark Wives (2024), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Vera Stanhope in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Vera Stanhope books in order?

You should read the Vera Stanhope books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Vera Stanhope book also stands alone.

What order should you read Vera Stanhope books in?

Read them in publication order, starting with The Crow Trap (1999), the earliest published title. After it come Telling Tales (2005), Hidden Depths (2007), Silent Voices (2010) and The Glass Room (2012); the numbered table above continues from there.

What is the newest Vera Stanhope book?

The Dark Wives (2024) is the newest Vera Stanhope book released so far.

Is there a new Vera Stanhope book coming?

No next Vera Stanhope book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Vera Stanhope at a glance

Still running
Vera Stanhope is still running, with a title published as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Vera Stanhope books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
2,220 pages across the 6 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 378 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Vera Stanhope books, 5 of 13, were published in the 2020s.
Corroboration
13 of the 13 titles appear in all four independent book listings.

What the Vera Stanhope books are about

10 of the 13 Vera Stanhope books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: mystery & detective, women sleuths is tagged on 9 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Ann Cleeves

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.

Other series by Ann Cleeves

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.