Ann Cleeves
Ann Cleeves is the author of more than thirty-five critically acclaimed novels, and in 2017 was awarded the highest accolade in crime writing, the CWA Diamond Dagger. She is the creator of popular detectives Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez and Matthew Venn, who can be found on television in ITV’s Vera, BBC One’s Shetland and ITV's The Long Call respectively. The TV series and the books they are based on have become international sensations, capturing the minds of millions 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. Ann also spends her time advocating for reading to improve health and wellbeing and supporting access to books. In 2021 her Reading for Wellbeing project launched with local authorities across the North East. She lives in North Tyneside where the Vera books are set.
Books by Ann Cleeves
The Sleeping and the Dead
The Woman on the Island
The Heron's Cry
The Girls on the Shore
Dead Water
Thin Air
Cold Earth
Wild Fire
Raven Black
White Nights
Red Bones
Blue Lightning
The Darkest Evening
The Glass Room
Harbour Street
The Moth Catcher
The Seagull
The Crow Trap
Telling Tales
Hidden Depths
Silent Voices
The Long Call
A Bird in the Hand
A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy
Too Good To Be True
Shetland
Offshore
The Mill on the Shore
Sea Fever
Another Man's Poison
The Baby-Snatcher
The Healers
High Island Blues
Come Death and High Water
Murder in Paradise
A Prey to Murder
A Lesson in Dying
Murder in My Backyard
Killjoy
Burial of Ghosts
The Rising Tide
The Raging Storm
Series by Ann Cleeves