Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves is a British crime writer, best known for her Shetland and Vera Stanhope series of police procedural novels. Cleeves began her writing career through boredom, whilst she was resident on the miniscule tidal nature reserve of Hilbre. Her first two sleuths, amateur naturalist George Palmer-Jones and Inspector Ramsay, met with moderate success, but it was when Cleeves produced The Crow Trap in 1999 that her career really took off. The book’s redoubtable detective Vera Stanhope became an immediate hit with readers and led to numerous sequels and a television spin-off series starring Brenda Blethyn. In 2006, Cleeves unveiled Raven Black, the first in a series of police procedurals set on the Shetland Islands. This series also proved hugely popular and received an acclaimed television adaptation. September 2019 saw the publication of the first in the Two Rivers crime series, The Long Call.

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