by Ann Cleeves
This is the second book in the author's series featuring the Detective Inspector Vera. Coincidentally they played this story on TV recently. The TV version varied a little at the beginning and also in whodunnit. However for the most part the stories were similar.
The book is about Vera and her assistant being brought in to re-open a murder investigation. A teenager was killed. The girl's father's lover was convicted of the crime but always maintains her innocence. She commits suicide in prison. At about the same time it comes out that new evidence has come forward that exonerates her.
Vera finds that the local police perhaps jumped too quickly to their conclusion. The murder victim had one girl who was her closest friend. It was this girl who found her body. The girl's brother, who had been estranged from the family returns to town and is killed soon after.
Eventually it comes out that it was the young girl's mother who killed both the teenager and her own son. She killed the teenager because she was going to blackmail the woman's husband and she kills her son because he is going to accuse his father of the murder.
It was an interesting read. You don't really get much insight into how Vera thinks or feels about things but she is considered gruff in the book, as she is portrayed in the TV series.
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