As a hidden draft cleared the mist again, Vera realized that her companion was too still and her skin was too pale.When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the steam room of her local pool, she wonders briefly if, for once,...

WINNER OF THE 2006 DUNCAN LAWRIE DAGGER FOR BEST CRIME NOVELNo one knew he had this beautiful creature to visit him. She was his treasure, the raven in his cage.It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies beneath a deep layer of snow....

The Eighth Vera Stanhope NovelObsession never dies . . .When prison inmate and former police officer John Brace says he's willing to give up information about the location of a dead body in return for protection for his family, Vera...

From Ann Cleeves-New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows-comes the stunning tenth Vera Stanhope novel, The Rising Tide, a powerful novel about guilt, betrayal,...

A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Unst, Shetland's most northerly island, to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends to a Shetlander. But late on the night of the wedding party, one...

Murder can strike more than once . . .Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to Fair Isle. It's a community where strangers, while welcomed, are still viewed with a degree of mistrust.With...

Cold Earth is the seventh book in the Shetland series from Ann Cleeves, the number one bestselling author and creator of Vera and the Two Rivers. A woman is found dead in the flooded ruins of a croft house ¿ but it was not the flood that...

From Ann Cleeves-New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows-comes Telling Tales. "Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers."-Louise Penny It has been ten...

Dead Water is the fifth book in Ann Cleeves' Shetland series - a major BBC1 drama starring Douglas Henshall. When the body of journalist Jerry Markham is found in a traditional Shetland boat, outside the house of the local public...

DCI Vera Stanhope returns in The Darkest Evening, the ninth novel in Sunday Times bestseller Ann Cleeves' enduringly popular series.Driving home during a swirling blizzard, Vera Stanhope's only thought is to get there quickly.But the...

From Ann Cleeves-New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows-comes Silent Voices. "Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers."-Louise Penny When Detective...

Sunday Times bestselling author of the Shetland and Two Rivers series, Ann Cleeves, returns with the tenth in the acclaimed Northumbrian set Vera Stanhope series, following on from The Darkest Evening, in which a school reunion turns...