Ann Cleeves

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....

White Nights is the second book in the Shetland series from Ann Cleeves, the number one bestselling author and creator of Vera and The Two Rivers. When two bodies are discovered in the midsummer heat, Inspector Jimmy Perez must work fast – before the killer finds another victim....

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....

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

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.

A woman is found dead in the flooded ruins of a croft house–but it was not the flood that killed her, and Inspector Jimmy Perez has a murderer on his hands....

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....

Dr Yeo seems an unlikely murder victim. He’s a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter. Matthew is unnerved, though, to find that she is a close friend of Jonathan, his husband....

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

Hidden Depths is the third book in the Vera Stanhope series, from Ann Cleeves, the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author and creator of Vera, Shetland, and The Two Rivers series.

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

A woman's death sees rumours flood the island community – as Inspector Jimmy Perez's life is about to change forever. Wild Fire is the eighth and final Shetland mystery from Ann Cleeves....

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....

Driving home during a swirling blizzard, Vera Stanhope's only thought is to get there quickly. But the snow is so heavy that she becomes disorientated and loses her way....

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....

Ten years ago fifteen-year-old Abigail Mantel was murdered. Her father’s girlfriend was found guilty of the crime. Now, evidence has emerged that proves her innocence and means that Abigail’s killer still roams free. Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope is tasked with uncovering the truth....

When Shetland detective Jimmy Perez finds a body in a hut used by fishermen, it seems to be a straightforward case of suicide. He recognises the victim - a stranger with amnesia who had disrupted a local party the night before his death....

A remote community with a killer in their midst....

After a young archaeologist uncovers a set of human remains, the island settlers are intrigued. Is it an ancient find – or a more contemporary mystery? Then, in the middle of the night, an elderly woman is shot dead. It appears to be a tragic accident, but Jimmy Perez is called to investigate.

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....