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  • Location: North Pennines, Northumberland

The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope 1)

2000s: This is Vera Stanhope’s first outing and an isolated cottage in the North Pennines is the setting

  • Location: Northumberland, North East England

Hidden Depths (Vera Stanhope 3)

2000s: This book evokes the area very well: Foxhunters, Whitley Bay, Seaton Sluice, North Shields, Morpeth and Newcastle.

  • Location: Tyne Valley, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Silent Voices (Vera Stanhope 4)

2000s: Discover Northumberland and the character of Vera Stanhope who works with Northumbria police in her attempts to solve crime. Travel to the beautiful Tyne…

  • Location: Northumberland, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (fictional Mardle)

Harbour Street (Vera Stanhope 6)

2000s: Ann Cleeves. Northumberland. A classic crime writer who lives and breathes the North East! Mardle and Partington may be fictional but they are inspired…

  • Location: Northumberland

The Glass Room (Vera Stanhope 5)

2000s: It takes place in a writer’s House, a country retreat in Northumberland where inspiring authors gather to work on their novels. A great literary…

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The Tumbling Girl

1876: So much sass and sexiness in one book!

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