Ann Cleeves

The Killing Stones marks the eagerly awaited return of Ann Cleeves' beloved detectives from the Shetland series, and a gripping new investigation with a stunning new setting.

Three very different women come together to complete an environmental survey on the Northumberland countryside. Three women who, in some way or another, know the meaning of betrayal....

Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a splash of color on the frozen ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbor, Catherine Ross....

As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's beloved Vera series explodes in popularity, this stunning eleventh book explores the web of secrets surrounding a young man's death....

Thin Air is the sixth book in the Shetland series from Ann Cleeves, the number one bestselling author and creator of Vera and the Two Rivers. A woman disappears under supernatural circumstances, and detectives Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves must find the truth behind the ghoulish mystery....

The Crow Trap is the first book in the Vera Stanhope series, from Ann Cleeves, the number one bestselling author and creator of Vera, Shetland, and The Two Rivers series.

Sunday Times best-selling author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope series, Ann Cleeves returns with the first in a series set in North Devon and featuring Detective Matthew Venn. In this rural idyll, where two rivers meet, crime is always there waiting to rise from the water....

A body is found by an early morning dog walker on the common outside Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The victim is Josh, a staff member, who never showed up to work. DI Vera Stanhope is called out to investigate....

A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Shetland to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends. But one of them, Eleanor, disappears....

In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father’s funeral takes place. On the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family, too....

Who hung the headmaster in the playground on the night of the school Halloween Party? Almost everyone in Heppleburn either hated or feared the viper-tongued Harold Medburn....

Life seems perfect in Valley Farm, a quiet community in Northumberland. Then a shocking discovery shatters the silence....

No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry...but here she is, murdered in her own backyard on a bitter St. David’s Eve....

The Crow Trap is the first book in the Vera Stanhope series, from Ann Cleeves, the number one bestselling author and creator of Vera, Shetland, and The Two Rivers series.

Fifty years ago, a group of teenagers spent a weekend on Holy Island, forging a bond that has lasted a lifetime. Now, they still return every five years to celebrate their friendship and remember the friend they lost to the rising waters of the causeway at the first reunion....

From Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller Ann Cleeves come the third Matthew Venn novel – following The Long Call, now an ITV adaptation, and The Heron’s Cry – in which the mysterious death of a celebrity on the Devon coast starts Venn on a path to the truth and straight back into his past....

Ann Cleeves is well known for her 'Vera', 'Shetland', and 'Two Rivers' crime series. This collection includes full-cast dramatisations of the first two 'Shetland' novels featuring Detective Jimmy Perez, as well as three short stories and a discussion with the bestselling author....

When the body of a journalist is found, Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted from outside to head up the investigation. Inspector Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop, but his local knowledge is needed in this case, and he decides to help Willow....

The first mystery novel in the Palmer-Jones series by Ann Cleeves, winner of the 2017 CWA Diamond Dagger....

North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder....