Ann Cleeves
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From Ann Cleeves--bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows--comes the first in a gripping new series. "Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers."--Louise Penny In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. Once loved and cherished, the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community...
Author
Series
The Two Rivers volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Ann Cleeves-New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows-returns with the extraordinary follow-up to The Long Call, in the Two Rivers series, soon to be a major TV series too. 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...
Author
Series
The two rivers volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fierce winds, dark secrets, deadly intentions. When Jem Rosco--sailor, adventurer, and legend--blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity in their midst. But just as abruptly as he arrived, Rosco disappears again, and soon his lifeless body is discovered in a dinghy, anchored off Scully Cove, a place with legends of its own. This is an uncomfortable case for Detective Inspector...
Author
Series
The Vera Stanhope volume 9
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 372 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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 stunning new Vera Stanhope novel, The Darkest Evening. "Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers."-Louise Penny "As a huge fan of both the Shetland and Vera series of books, I had high expectations for Cleeves' latest. . . . A stunning debut for Cleeves' latest crimefighter."-David Baldacci on The...
Author
Series
A Vera Stanhope novel volume 10
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend that they lost to the rising causeway tide five years later. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends are hiding, and whether the events of many years before...
Author
Series
Shetland Island volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a young archaeologist's discovery of human remains that may be modern, Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate a case that is further complicated by the subsequent murder of an elderly woman.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The shouts and laughter of Christmas revelers break the muffled silence as Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter Jessie are swept along onto the Metro. But when the train is stopped due to the bad weather, Jessie notices that one lady hasn't left the train: Margaret Krukowski has been fatally stabbed. Why would anyone want to harm this reserved, elegant lady? Arriving at the scene, DI Vera Stanhope is relieved to have an excuse to escape the holiday...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Three very different women come together to complete an environmental survey. Three women who, in some way or another, know the meaning of betrayal....For team leader Rachael Lambert the project is the perfect opportunity to rebuild her confidence after a double-betrayal by her lover and boss, Peter Kemp. Botanist Anne Preece, on the other hand, sees it as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. And then there is Grace Fulwell, a strange,...
9) The seagull
Author
Series
A Vera Stanhope mystery volume Book 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Vera Stanhope comes face-to-face with an old enemy, former detective superintendent, John Brace, who is now in prison due a corruption conviction. Brace promises Vera information about the disappearance of Robbie Marshall, a notorious wheeler-dealer, if she will look out for his family, but not is all as it seems.
Author
Series
Shetland Island volume 5
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Ann Cleeves returns to her critically acclaimed Shetland Island series with this stunning mystery featuring Inspector Jimmy Perez, who readers will remember from Raven Black, White Nights, Red Bones, and Blue Lightning. 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...
11) Thin air
Author
Series
Shetland Island mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
When a woman mysteriously disappears, Detectives Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves are assigned to the case and discover that the victim had an unhealthy and obsessive interest in a cold case involving the drowning of a local child.
12) Wild fire
Author
Series
Shetland Island mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Hoping for a fresh start, an English family moves to the remote Shetland islands, eager to give their autistic son a better life. But when a young nanny's body is found hanging in the barn beside their home, rumors of her affair with the husband spread like wildfire. As suspicion and resentment of the family blazes in the community, detective Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate.
13) Raven black
Author
Series
Shetland Island volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When murder strikes a remote hamlet in the Shetland Islands, and the body of a teenage girl turns up in the winter snow, Inspector Jimmy Perez launches an investigation into the killing that takes him into the heart of sinister secrets from the past.
14) Telling tales
Author
Series
A Vera Stanhope mystery volume Book 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"It has been ten years since Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail Mantel. Now residents of the East Yorkshire village of Elvet are disturbed to hear of new evidence proving Jeanie's innocence. Abigail's killer is still at large. For one young woman, Emma Bennett, the revelation brings back haunting memories of her vibrant best friend--and of that fearful winter's day when she had discovered her body lying cold in a ditch....
15) Blue lightning
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
16) Silent voices
Author
Series
A Vera Stanhope mystery volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Vera Stanhope hopes she's discovered just a simple natural-causes death when the body of a woman is found in the sauna room of her local gym--but subsequent inspection reveals strangulation bruises. Vera and her team soon uncover details in the victim's past that could explain her untimely death; but Vera knows there's no such thing as a simple case, and this one gets more baffling by the minute.
17) The glass room
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her hippy neighbors keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation, and somehow bonds have formed. When one of them goes missing, Vera tracks the young woman down to the Writers House, a country retreat where aspiring authors work on their stories. Things get complicated when a body is discovered, and Vera's neighbor is found with a knife in her hand. Calling in the team, Vera knows that...
19) Cold earth
Author
Series
Shetland Island mysteries volume Book 7
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a landslide in the dark days of a Shetland winter destroys a house in which the body of a mysterious woman in a red silk dress is found, Jimmy Perez becomes obsessed with identifying the woman and discovering how she actually died.
20) The moth catcher
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Life seems perfect in Valley Farm, a quiet community in Northumberland. Then a shocking discovery shatters the silence. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter to look after the place while they're away. But he is found dead by the side of the lane into the valley. DI Vera Stanhope arrives on the scene with her detectives Holly and Joe. When they look round the attic of the big house, Vera finds the body of a second man. As...