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      The Sleeping and the Dead

      by Ann Cleeves
      Published
      Jan 2001
      Main Genre
      Police Procedural Police Procedural
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      336
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      Peter Porteous fled the pressures of big city crime to be a small town cop ...

      But he soon finds out there's no getting away from murder. When water levels drop in a summer drought, Cranwell Lake reveals a thirty-year-old secret—a body stabbed in the back with an anchor tied around its waist. Detective Chief Inspector Porteous soon identifies the body as missing teenager Michael Grey. But that's only the start of the mystery.

      Fifty miles away, prison librarian Hannah Morton is about to get the shock of her life. For Michael was her boyfriend, and she was with him the night he disappeared. The grisly discovery brings back dreaded and long-buried memories from her past and begins a deadly chain of events ...

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      Law Enforcement Mystery Police Procedural

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      First Edition Jan 2008 Bywater Books ISBN13 9781932859416 ISBN10 1932859411
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      Sep 2002 Pan Books (UK) ISBN13 9780330488020 ISBN10 0330488023
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      Sep 2013 Pan Books (UK) ISBN13 9781447241294 ISBN10 1447241290
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      Jan 2023 Pan Books (UK) ISBN13 9781529070514 ISBN10 1529070511
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      Mar 2025 St. Martin's ISBN13 9781250391667 ISBN10 1250391660
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      Jun 2022 Pan Books (UK) ISBN13 9781035003402 ISBN10 1035003406
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      Dec 2011 Pan Books (UK) ISBN13 9780330540520 ISBN10 0330540521
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      Dec 2018 Isis Publishing Ltd ISBN10 B07KMDJDFN
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