A scream. It seemed hardly human and was without age or gender: loud and piercing and terrifying.DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but when one of her neighbours goes missing she feels duty-bound to find out what...

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,...

Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet again A Lesson in Dying is the first mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series....

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,...

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...

Weißt du, wem du trauen kannst? Winter auf den Shetland-Inseln. Still ruht die Welt unter einer weißen Decke. Das Mädchen im Schnee trägt einen roten Schal um den Hals. Um sie herum sitzen Raben. Als Fran Hunter die Leiche der...

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...

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...