Celebrate twenty years of this classic police procedural from the author of the Vera and Shetland series with a special hardback edition of Detective Peter Porteous' investigation into a mysterious corpse dredged up from Cranwell Lake.
The Sleeping and The Dead is a tense psychological thriller from Ann Cleeves, author and creator of three astounding TV series: Shetland, Vera and The Long Call. Detective Peter Porteous is called to Cranwell Lake where the body of a teenager has been discovered. After trawling through the missing persons files, he comes to the conclusion that the corpse is Michael Grey, an enigmatic and secretive young man who was reported missing by his foster parents in 1972. The news report that a body has been found leaves prison officer Hannah Morton in shock. Michael had been her boyfriend, and she had been with him the night he disappeared. And now the discovery is bringing back dreaded and long buried memories from her past . . .
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781529070514
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 282 g
Dimensions: 196 x 131 x 29 mm
Cleeves again excels in her sense of place in this cleverly plotted psychological thriller - The Times
A suspenseful crime story that puts Ms Cleeves in the Rendell class - Peterborough Evening Telegraph
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