The Woman on the Island

The book cover for The Woman on the Island by Ann Cleeves includes the notations 'New York Times Bestselling Author' and 'A Vera Stanhope Short Story'.

The image is of a point of land with a large white lighthouse in the distance, the light shining brightly. The surrounding sea is blue purple and the sky pink. There's vegetation on the spit of land.

A rare day off from policing leads DCI Vera Stanhope across the tidal causeway to Holy Island, the lure of crab sandwiches there too hard to resist.

While on the island, she is reminded of the day decades before when, as a teenager, she went with her father Hector on another day...Read more