Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves

About Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves is the author behind ITV’s VERA and BBC One’s SHETLAND. She has written over twenty-five novels, and is the creator of detectives Vera Stanhope and Jimmy Perez – characters loved both on screen and in print. Her books have now sold over 1 million copies worldwide.

Ann worked as a probation officer, bird observatory cook and auxiliary coastguard before she started writing. She is a member of ‘Murder Squad’, working with other British northern writers to promote crime fiction. In 2006 Ann was awarded the Duncan Lawrie Dagger (CWA Gold Dagger) for Best Crime Novel, for Raven Black, the first book in her Shetland series. In 2012 she was inducted into the CWA Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame. Ann lives in North Tyneside.

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Ann Cleeves on her Vera Stanhope novels

Award-winning crime writer Ann Cleeves talks about the TV adaptation of her Vera Stanhope series (now the major ITV drama VERA), the inspiration behind her unlikely heroine, and her next book.

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Books By This Author

  • The Sleeping and the Dead
  • Burial of Ghosts
  • A Bird in the Hand
  • Come Death and High Water
  • Murder in Paradise
  • A Prey to Murder
  • A Lesson in Dying
  • Murder in My Backyard
  • Killjoy
  • The Mill on the Shore
  • Sea Fever
  • Another Man's Poison
  • The Baby-Snatcher
  • The Healers
  • High Island Blues
  • A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy
  • Dead Water: (Shetland series 5)
  • SHETLAND: Dead Water: (Shetland series 5)
  • Red Bones
  • The Glass Room
  • VERA: The Glass Room
  • Silent Voices
  • VERA: Silent Voices
  • VERA: Hidden Depths
  • VERA: The Crow Trap
  • Hidden Depths (TV tie-in)
  • Telling Tales (TV tie-in)
  • The Crow Trap (TV tie-in)
  • SHETLAND: Red Bones
  • Blue Lightning
  • SHETLAND: Blue Lightning
  • The Crow Trap
  • Telling Tales
  • Raven Black
  • SHETLAND: Raven Black
  • White Nights
  • SHETLAND: White Nights

Latest Book By This Author

Dead Water: (Shetland series 5)

Events & Tours

May 2013

Ann Cleeves at Walsall Library

Ann Cleeves is the author behind ITV’s VERA and BBC One’s SHETLAND. She has written over twenty-five novels, and is the creator of detectives Vera Stanhope and Jimmy Perez – characters loved both on screen and in print. Her books have now sold over 1 million copies worldwide.

Ann worked as a probation officer, bird observatory cook and auxiliary coastguard before she started writing. She is a member of ‘Murder Squad’, working with other British northern writers to promote crime fiction. In 2006 Ann was awarded the Duncan Lawrie Dagger (CWA Gold Dagger) for Best Crime Novel, for Raven Black, the first book in her Shetland series. In 2012 she was inducted into the CWA Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame. Ann lives in North Tyneside.

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June 2013

Ann Cleeves

The panel will consist of:

  • Ann Cleeves (author)
  • Erik de Vries (Dutch translator)
  • Charlotte Werner (Swedish editor)

Moderator: Daniel Hahn
Sponsored by the British Centre for Literary Translation


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Latest News

Acclaimed Scots actor Douglas Henshall has been cast as the lead role in Shetland, a new two-part drama set in Scotland for BBC One, produced by ITV Studios through BBC Scotland, and written by David Kane, adapted from the series of books by award-winning crime writer Ann Cleeves.

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    A second short story. Featuring competition winner Kevin.

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    The Habit of Silence

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Um, rain forecast for Monday I'm afraid. @jessicaduchen @ulverstonfest
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@jessicaduchen Have a wonderful time. Hot and sunny here in the north.
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@shetlandnight Give me a shout when you get home. Or email Sophie. I think she's there for another week.
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