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Aug 30, 2024 · Award-winning novelist Ann Cleeves has been an outspoken advocate for public libraries throughout her career; she was a worthy first recipient of the new Public Library Champion award. This has been established to recognise a public figure who has used their platform to promote, celebrate and raise awareness of libraries.
Learn about Ann Cleeves, the creator of the popular crime detective Vera Stanhope, and her books, TV adaptations, awards and short stories. Find out the latest news, events and updates on the VERA series and the author.
Ann Cleeves introduces her new series featuring Detective Inspector Matthew Venn, set in North Devon. The latest book is The Raging Storm, a standalone mystery with a stormy plot and a real-life Woodyard project.
Explore the Shetland murder mysteries, featuring Jimmy Perez, by Ann Cleeves, the award-winning author of Vera and Shetland. Find out more about the books, the TV adaptations, the characters, the locations and the author.
In 2006 Ann Cleeves was the first winner of the prestigious Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award of the Crime Writers' Association for Raven Black, the first volume of her Shetland series. In addition, she has been short listed for a CWA Dagger Awards - once for her short story The Plater , and twice for the Dagger in the Library award, which is awarded ...
The Dark Wives is the eleventh book in the Vera Stanhope series by Ann Cleeves, published in August 2024. It follows DI Vera Stanhope as she investigates the murder of a young man and the disappearance of a teenage girl in a coastal village.
Ann Cleeves's six murder mysteries featuring Inspector Stephen Ramsay were published in the 1990s, and have become collectors items. Like Ann's Vera Stanhope, Inspector Ramsay is based in Northumberland, and the books show all aspects of that multi-faceted county.
Ann talking to members of the Ilfracombe Lifeboat crew at the Landmark Theatre, Ilfracombe. New podcast: Ann talked to the Friendship File podcast about her oldest and still best friend. It was "a very odd, but lovely experience," she says.
"Ann Cleeves has cleverly set up a traditional murder mystery (with an explicit nod to Agatha Christie) on an isolated island with few suspects and little outside involvement, yet has made it a plausible, fresh, compelling modern tale."
Ann Cleeves's publishing career began back in 1986 with a murder mystery featuring George Palmer-Jones, an elderly birdwatcher - helped by his wife, Molly. A Bird in the Hand was to be the first of a whole series of George and Molly murder mysteries.
