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Ann Cleeves OBE (born 24 October 1954) is a British mystery crime writer. She wrote the Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez, and Matthew Venn series, all three of which have been adapted into TV shows.In 2006 she won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger for her novel Raven Black, the first novel in the Jimmy Perez series.
Award-winning novelist Ann Cleeves has been an outspoken advocate for public libraries throughout her career; she was a worthy first recipient of the new Public Library Champion award. This has been established to recognise a public figure who has used their platform to promote, celebrate and raise awareness of libraries.
Killin’ Time in San Diego: Bouchercon Anthology 2023. (2023) Description / Buy at Amazon. Ann Cleeves is a British author who is best known for her work with Crime Fiction. She was born in 1954 in England and grew up in the English countryside. She spent her childhood living in Herefordshire until her family moved her to North Devon.
In 2006 Ann Cleeves was the first winner of the prestigious Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award of the Crime Writers' Association for Raven Black, the first volume of her Shetland Quartet. The Duncan Lawrie Dagger replaces the CWA's Gold Dagger award, and the winner receives £20,000, making it the world's largest award for crime fiction.
Apr 23, 2024 · Beginning with The Crow Trap, the Vera Stanhope series is the bestselling and critically-acclaimed collection of crime novels set in Northumberland, written by award-winning author Ann Cleeves. The series has been made into a hit detective drama on ITV1, starring Brenda Blethyn as Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope of the Northumbria Police Force, which is currently filming its fourteenth and ...
The BBC has announced that Shetland, the gripping tv crime drama which grew out of Ann Cleeves' award-winning detective novels, will return for not one but two more series! Viewers will get another look at the developing relationdhip between Tosh (Alison O'Donnell) and DI Ruth Calder (played by Ashley Jensen). The BBC said that Shetland was the ...
Oct 21, 2023 · The Two Rivers Books. In the last few years, Ann Cleeves has begun a thrilling new crime series starring North Devon police detective Matthew Venn. In book one, Venn’s estranged father passes away, and he’s called back to the strict evangelical community where he grew up to pay his final respects.
Ann's contribution to The Starlings and Other Stories (which she has also edited), is the title story, The Starlings, featuring DI Vera Stanhope. For this collection of twelve short stories, Ann invited each of her fellow members of Murder Squad writers' group to join her, with an accomplice, in writing a short story inspired by the dramatic ...
Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope may not be the first person you'd think of for a heroine: she's overweight, a bit rough around the edges, and her staff...
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 Crow Trap, the first in the Vera Stanhope series. “Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers.”—Louise Penny Three very different women come together to complete an environmental survey on the Northumberland countryside.
