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...

Shetland: Welcoming. Wild. Remote.Drawn in by the reputation of the islands, an English family move to the area, eager to give their autistic son a better life.But when a young nanny's body is found hanging in the barn of their home,...

Burial of Ghosts is a page-turning stand alone novel from Ann Cleeves, creator of the astounding Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.Twenty-five-year-old Lizzie Bartholomew has had more than her fair share of struggles. Abandoned as...

The Third Vera Stanhope NovelA killer who is making an art out of murder . . .A hot summer on the Northumberland coast and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son strangled, laid out in a bath of water and covered...

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 Harbour Street. "Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers."-Louise Penny As the snow...

In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge meet, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the chapel as his father's funeral takes place. The day Matthew left the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family...

The body hung from a thick noose. Only when Perez went a few steps further did he see the mask, grinning.At first, the hanging body seems to be a straightforward case of suicide. Shetland detective Jimmy Perez recognizes the victim - a...

The Heron's Cry is the second novel in the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling series featuring detective Matthew Venn, from the creator of Vera and Shetland, Ann Cleeves.North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its...

Praise for Ann Cleeves 'The best living evoker of landscape' Mark Lawson, Guardian 'Nobody does unsettling undercurrents better than Ann Cleeves' Val McDermid 'Ann's characterization is worthy of the best writers in the field' Daily...