Best Selling Books by Ann Cleeves

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 Moth Catcher. “Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers.”—Louise Penny Life seems perfect in the quiet community of Valley Farm. Then a shocking discovery shatters the silence. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter, a young ecologist, to look after the place while they’re away. But his dead body is found by the side of the lane—a lonely place to die. When DI Vera Stanhope arrives on the scene, she finds the body of a second man. What the two victims seem to have in common is a fascination with studying moths—and with catching these beautiful, intriguing creatures. The others who live in Valley Farm have secrets too: Lorraine’s calm demeanor belies a more complex personality; Annie and Sam’s daughter, Lizzie, is due to be released from prison; and Nigel watches, silently, every day, from his window. As Vera is drawn into the claustrophobic world of this increasingly strange community, she realizes that there may be many deadly secrets trapped there . . .

When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, she wonders briefly if, for once in her life, she''s uncovered a simple death from natural causes. But a closer inspection reveals ligature marks around the victim''s throat - death is never that simple...

Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet again The Healers is the fifth mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Shetland, Vera Stanhope and Two Rivers crime series. Isolated farmer Ernie Bowles is found lying on his kitchen floor, gruesomely strangled . . . News of the murder comes to Inspector Stephen Ramsay early on Monday morning and he fears this case will not be simple. In his experience, most murders are straightforward: an explosion of family pressure, or the loss of control in a fight. But Bowles kept to himself and had lived alone since his mother''s death. Then a seemingly unconnected women is found strangled, too. Surely two such killings in the same locality are more than just chilling coincidence? When Ramsay hears of a third suspicious death, a very tenuous link between the victims takes on a new importance, for all were connected in some way to the Alternative Therapy Centre in Mittingford. Could one of the healers be a killer? Praise for Ann Cleeves: ''The new Queen of Crime'' - Sunday Mirror ''One of the best natural writers of detective fiction'' - Daily Express

The Baby-Snatcher is the sixth and final mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series. Marilyn Howe’s and her mother Kathleen are an inseparable duo, until one night Kathleen doesn’t come home . . . Fifteen year old Marilyn turns up alone and frightened on Inspector Ramsay’s doorstep so he takes the young girl home to the isolated coastal community known as the Headland. And in the Howes’ dark and cluttered kitchen they find Kathleen safe and apparently well, though acting rather mysteriously. Six months later, Ramsay has more or less forgotten the strange incident, busy as he is on the trail of a local child abductor. Until he receives news that Mrs Howe has disappeared once more. And for the second time he is drawn into the strange relationships of the families living on the lonely Headland. Then a woman’s body is washed up on the beach . . .

DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but she has more tolerance for her hippy neighbours than most. When one of them goes missing she feels duty-bound to find out what happened. It''s an easy job to track the young woman down to a country retreat where aspiring authors gather to work through their novels. It gets complicated when a body is discovered and Vera''s neighbour is found with a knife in her hand. Calling in the team, Vera knows that she should hand the case over to someone else but the investigation is too tempting. Then another body is found, and Vera suspects that someone is playing games with her.

The sixth novel in the Vera series Harbour Street is the sixth book in Ann Cleeves'' Vera series--which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn. Also available in the Vera Stanhope series are The Crow Trap, Telling Tales, Hidden Depths, Silent Voices and The Glass Room. Ann Cleeves'' Shetland series (BBC television drama Shetland) contains five titles, of which Dead Water is the most recent.

The Seagull is Ann Cleeves'' searing eighth novel in the bestselling Vera Stanhope series, about corruption deep in the heart of a community, and about fragile, and fracturing, family relationships.A visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detective superintendent, and now inmate, John Brace. Brace was convicted of corruption and involvement in the death of a gamekeeper - and Vera played a part in his downfall. Brace promises Vera information about the disappearance of Robbie Marshall, a notorious wheeler-dealer, if she will look out for his daughter and grandchildren. He tells her that Marshall is dead, his body buried close to St Mary''s Island in Whitley Bay. However, when a search team investigates, officers find not one skeleton, but two. This cold case takes Vera back in time, and very close to home, as Brace and Marshall, along with a mysterious stranger known only as ''the Prof'', were close friends of Hector, her father. Together, they were ''the Gang of Four'', and Hector had been one of the last people to see Marshall alive. Vera must confront her prejudices and unwanted memories to dig out the truth, as the past begins to collide dangerously with the present . . .

Thin Air is the next book in Ann Cleeves'' Shetland series - which is now a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall as detective Jimmy Perez. A group of old university friends are in Unst, Shetland''s most northerly island, to celebrate the wedding of one of their friends to a Shetlander. But late on the night of the wedding party one of them, Eleanor, disappears -- apparently into thin air. It''s mid-summer, a time of light nights and unexpected mists. The next day Eleanor''s best friend Polly receives an email from her saying she''ll never be found alive. And so it seems, because the woman''s body is found, lying in a small loch close to the cliff edge. Before she disappeared Eleanor claimed to have seen the ghost of Peerie Lizzie, a child who was drowned close by in the 1920s. And as the investigation progresses Polly feels that she too is being haunted. The case takes Jimmy Perez out of his comfort zone to London, to talk to Eleanor''s colleagues and friends. But the final solution to the mystery takes him back to Shetland once more. Also available in the Shetland series are Raven Black, White Nights, Red Bones, Blue Lightning and Dead Water. Ann Cleeves'' Vera Stanhope series series (ITV television drama VERA) contains six titles, of which Harbour Street is the most recent.

Vera Stanhope, star of ITV''s Vera, returns in the tenth novel in number one bestseller Ann Cleeves'' acclaimed series.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.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 could have led to murder then, and now . . .But with the tide rising, secrets long-hidden are finding their way to the surface, and Vera and the team may find themselves in more danger than they could have believed possible . . .

Murder can strike more than once...Blue Lightning is the fourth book in Ann Cleeves'' Shetland series - which is now the major BBC1 drama starring Douglas Henshall, SHETLAND. With the autumn storms raging, Fair Isle feels cut off from the rest of the world. Trapped, tension is high and tempers become frayed. Enough to drive someone to murder . . . A woman''s body is discovered at the renowned Fair Isles bird observatory, with feathers threaded through her hair. The islanders react with fear and anger. Detective Jimmy Perez has no support from the mainland and must investigate the old-fashioned way. He soon realizes that this is no crime of passion - but a murder of cold and calculated intention. There''s no way off the island until the storms abate - and so the killer is also trapped, just waiting for the opportunity to strike again. Also available in the Shetland series are Raven Black, White Nights, Red Bones and Dead Water. Ann Cleeves'' Vera Stanhope series (ITV television drama VERA) contains five titles, of which The Glass Room is the most recent.

Poliskommissarie Matthew Venn står utanför kyrkan i det lilla samhället Barnstaple i norra Devon och betraktar sin fars begravning på avstånd. Samma dag som Matthew vände ryggen åt den strikta frikyrkliga församling han växt upp i, förlorade han också kontakten med sin familj. Nu är han tillbaka i sina barndomstrakter, inte bara för att sörja sin far, utan för att ta sig an sitt första stora fall i polisregionen Two rivers. En man har hittats mördad på stranden nära Matthews nya hem: han har blivit knivhuggen, och han har en albatross tatuerad i nacken. Matthew lägger all sin kraft på att hitta gärningsmannen, och det blir en jakt som tar honom och hans team tillbaka till människorna från förr, och de livsfarliga hemligheter de döljer.

At the isolated Baikie''s Cottage on the North Pennines, three very different women come together. Three women who each know the meaning of betrayal... For team leader Rachael the project is the perfect opportunity to rebuild her confidence after a double-betrayal by her lover and boss, Peter Kemp. Botanist Anne, on the other hand, sees it as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. And then there is Grace, a strange, uncommunicative young woman with plenty of her own secrets to hide... When Rachael arrives at the cottage, however, she is horrified to discover the body of her friend Bella Furness. Bella, it appears, has committed suicide – a verdict Rachael finds impossible to accept. Only when the next death occurs does a fourth woman enter the picture – the unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope...

A classic standalone psychological thriller from Ann Cleeves, bestselling author of the Shetland, Vera, and Two Rivers series''.Abandoned as a baby, twenty-five-year-old Lizzie Bartholomew spent her childhood moving between foster homes and has had more than her fair share of troubles.Now a holiday in Morocco seems to be the perfect escape. Especially when she meets Philip, a fellow tourist. After a brief affair, Lizzie returns to England, only to find a solicitor''s letter waiting for her.Philip Samson has died and in his will, has left Lizzie a gift of £15,000. But there are conditions attached to this unexpected legacy that will soon force Lizzie to confront terrifying secrets from her past life.Burial of Ghosts is a page-turning standalone novel from Ann Cleeves, author and creator of the three astounding TV series: Shetland, Vera, and most recently The Long Call, available to watch on Britbox.

Ann Cleeves returns with a delicious short story featuring DCI Vera Stanhope. Set before The Rising Tide, Vera goes on a day trip to Holy Island, eager to escape the pressures of work. When there she is reminded of the day decades earlier when she, as a teenager, went with her father Hector on another day trip, and the mystery woman he met there . . . Vera already knew then that Hector kept secrets, but this time the fledgling investigator was determined to find the truth, never realizing it would mean taking her first step onto a path to becoming a detective . . .

Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet again A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy is the third novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series. For Dorothea Cassidy Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the one day she could call her own, a welcome respite from the routine duties that being a vicar''s wife entailed. But one Thursday in June was to be more special than any other. It was the day that Dorothea Cassidy was strangled. As the small town of Otterbridge prepares for its summer carnival, Inspector Stephen Ramsay begins a painstaking reconstruction of Dorothea''s last hours. He soon discovers that she had taken on a number of deserving cases – a sick and lonely old woman, a disturbed adolescent, a compulsive gambler, a single mother with a violent boyfriend and a child in care – and even her close family have their secrets to hide. All these people are haunted, in one way or another, by Dorothea''s goodness. But which of them could have possibly wanted her dead? It is not until a second body is discovered that Ramsay starts to understand how Dorothea lived – and why she died. With the carnival festivities in full swing and dusk falling in Otterbridge, Ramsay''s murder investigation reaches its chilling climax . . . ''Nobody does unsettling undercurrents better than Ann Cleeves'' – Val McDermid, author of The Mermaids Singing

Cold Earth is the seventh book in Ann Cleeves'' Shetland series - a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall. In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main Lerwick-Sumburgh road and sweeps down to the sea. At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Jimmy Perez watches the flood of mud and peaty water smash through a croft house in its path. Everyone thinks the croft is uninhabited, but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress. In his mind, she shares his Mediterranean ancestry and soon he becomes obsessed with tracing her identity. Then it emerges that she was already dead before the landslide hit the house. Perez knows he must find out who she was, and how she died. Also available in the Shetland series are Raven Black, White Nights, Red Bones, Blue Lightning, Dead Water and Thin Air.

Helena och Daniel Fleming flyttar med sina barn till den avlägset belägna orten Deltaness på Shetlandsöarna för att få en nystart. Sonen Christopher har autism och föräldrarna hoppas att en mindre skola ska ge honom bättre stöd än han fått på sin förra skola i London. Men familjen märker snart att alla i det lilla samhället inte är lika glada över deras ankomst. Någon skickar Helena små teckningar av en streckgubbe i en snara. Det visar sig att den tidigare ägaren av familjen Flemings nya hus begick självmord genom att hänga sig i ladan på gården. När Emma Shearer, barnflicka hos traktens läkare, hittas hängd i samma lada rubriceras dödsfallet som mord, inte självmord. Inom kort sprids skvallret om hennes förhållande med Daniel som en löpeld, och fallet hamnar på Jimmy Perez bord. Kommer Perez att lyckas hitta Emma Shearers mördare innan familjen Fleming har krossats för alltid? Vild eld är den totalt sett åttonde boken i Ann Cleeves Shetlandserie och del fyra i den nya kvartetten. Cleeves böcker ligger till grund för teveserien Shetland, som sänts på SVT.

Poliskommissarie Matthew Venn kallas till en spektakulär mordplats i en konstnärsateljé. Den före detta läkaren Nigel Yeo har huggits till döds med en sylvass glasskärva. Yeo framstår som ett osannolikt mordoffer. Trots det har någon velat honom ont, någon som inte drar sig för ytterligare dåd. Utredningen för Matthew in i en härva av lögner som gör balansgången mellan professionellt och privat allt svårare.

CWA Diamond Dagger winner Ann Cleeves’s Shetland Island series has long been beloved both by fans who have been intrigued by Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez from the very first page, and converts drawn in by the brilliant BBC series Shetland. Set in the most northerly community in the UK, the islands have a stark beauty that provides the backdrop for Jimmy’s quietly intense cases. Here together for the first time in a fantastic low-priced eBook bundle are the first four Shetland Island mysteries: Raven Black: Winner of the coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, Raven Black begins on New Year’s Eve with lonely outcast Magnus Tait. When the body of a murdered girl is discovered, suspicion falls on Magnus, and Inspector Jimmy Perez enters an investigative maze that leads deeper into the past of the Shetland Islands than anyone wants to go. White Nights: The launch of an exhibition at The Herring House art gallery is disturbed by a stranger who bursts into tears then claims not to remember who he is or where he comes from. The next day he’s found dead, and Jimmy must follow the winding trail the stranger has left behind to its conclusion. Red Bones: When a young archaeologist discovers a set of human remains, the locals are intrigued. Is it an ancient find—or a more contemporary mystery? Then an elderly woman is fatally shot, and Jimmy Perez is called in. In Red Bones, a claustrophobic mist swirls around the Shetland Islands, and Inspector Perez finds himself totally in the dark. Blue Lightning: Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez brings his fiancée home to Fair Isle, a birder’s paradise, but when a woman’s body is discovered at the island’s bird observatory, the investigation is hampered by a raging storm that renders the island totally isolated. Jimmy has to find clues the old-fashioned way, and he has to do it quickly. There’s a killer on the island just waiting for the chance to strike again.

The much-anticipated eighth novel in Ann Cleeves'' bestselling Vera Stanhope series.A visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detective superintendent, and now inmate, John Brace. Brace was convicted of corruption and involvement in the death of a gamekeeper - and Vera played a part in his downfall. Brace promises Vera information about the disappearance of Robbie Marshall, a notorious wheeler-dealer, if she will look out for his daughter and grandchildren. He tells her that Marshall is dead, his body is buried close to St Mary''s Island in Whitley Bay. However, when a search team investigates, officers find not one skeleton, but two. This cold case case takes Vera back in time, and very close to home, as Brace and Marshall, along with a mysterious stranger known only as ''the Prof'', were close friends of Hector, her father. Together, they were ''the Gang of Four'', and Hector had been one of the last people to see Marshall alive. Vera must confront her prejudices and unwanted memories to dig out the truth, as the past begins to collide dangerously with the present... The Seagull is Ann Cleeves'' searing new novel, about corruption deep in the heart of a community, and about fragile, and fracturing, family relationships.

''Matthew Venn is a keeper . . . stunning'' David Baldacci The number one Sunday Times bestselling series featuring Detective Matthew Venn, from author and creator of the Vera and Shetland series, Ann Cleeves - soon to be a major TV series. 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 staged murder - Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed. His daughter Eve is a glassblower, and the murder weapon is a shard of one of her broken vases. 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. Then another body is found - killed in a similar way. Matthew finds himself treading carefully through the lies that fester at the heart of his community and a case that is dangerously close to home . . . The Heron''s Cry is the second novel in Ann Cleeves'' Two Rivers crime series, following her Sunday Times bestseller, The Long Call. SHORTLISTED FOR THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL CRIME FICTION 2022 Praise for The Long Call ''As a huge fan of both the Shetland and Vera series of books, I had high expectations for Cleeves'' latest. Matthew Venn is a keeper. A stunning debut for Cleeves'' latest crimefighter'' - David Baldacci ''Had me hooked . . . a promising beginning to another fine chapter in the Ann Cleeves story'' - The Times ''A triumph that cements Cleeves'' status as one of Britain''s best crime writers'' - Daily Express ''Clever, compassionate and atmospheric . . . I am already a Matthew Venn fan'' - Elly Griffiths ''Cleeves combines a flair for evoking sense of place with a thoughtful, complex plot'' - Mail on Sunday ''A traditional mystery of the best sort'' - Guardian

The Mysteries of Shetland is a great value bind-up of the first three novels in Ann Cleeves phenomenal Shetland series - filmed as the major BBC1 drama starring Douglas Henshall, Shetland. Containing the first three novels, Raven Black, White Nights and Red Bones, this gripping eBook bundle is the perfect introduction to Detective Jimmy Perez. Also available in the Shetland series are Blue Lightning, Dead Water and Thin Air.

WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS'' ASSOCIATION DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD 2017 The Mill on the Shore is the seventh novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series. Meg Morrissey will not believe that her husband James committed suicide. A famous naturalist and founder of Green Scenes, a pioneering magazine about environmental issues, James was in high spirits because he''d finally completed his long awaited autobiography. He didn''t leave a suicide note. But even more suspiciously the record of his life''s achievement, his magnum opus, has gone missing. Troubled, Meg calls in amateur sleuths George and Molly Palmer-Jones to investigate. George and Molly''s interviews soon reveal that the life of the Morrissey family in their beautiful converted mill is not as idyllic as people are led to believe. Nor are relations with James''s ex-wife Cathy as friendly as Meg would like to make out. And, it emerges, James had fallen for another woman. Despite this, however, he appears to have had no enemies. Who could have wanted him dead? The disappearance of the autobiography is highly suspicious and George and Molly wonder whether the motive for the killing is to be found within its pages. Could the famous environmentalist have uncovered a secret so damaging someone was prepared to kill for it? Or was it something in James Morrissey''s private life that led to his death? George and Molly must try to fit together the missing pieces of information to reveal the cleverly suppressed motives which have driven someone to murder.

A journalist working on a story. Now his murder is a headline. Inspector Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate in Dead Water, the fifth Shetland mystery from Ann Cleeves. Now a major BBC One drama, Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall. When the body of a journalist is found in a traditional Shetland boat, Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted in to head up the investigation. Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop, but his local knowledge is needed and he decides to help the inquiry. Originally a Shetlander, the journalist had left the islands years before to make a name for himself in London, leaving a scandal in his wake. He had few friends in Shetland, so why was he back? When Willow and Jimmy dig deeper, they realize that he was chasing a story that many Shetlanders didn''t want to come to the surface. One that must have been significant enough to kill him for . . . Continue the captivating crime series with Thin Air.

Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of 15 year-old Abigail Mantel. New evidence now proves Jeanie''s innocence. But Jeanie commits suicide in her prison cell, unable to face the people who believed her capable of killing a child. Now Inspector Vera Stanhope is making fresh enquiries. Has the killer returned?

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. And when detective Stephen Ramsay starts asking questions in the village, a more ambiguous picture begins to emerge. Yes, old Mrs. Parry was loved by everyone, but sometimes her kindness had caused trouble. Yes, her two nephews were devoted to her, but they didn''t really want her interfering in their rather complicated personal lives. Even among her neighbours, Alice Parry''s helpfulness had sometimes misfired; and after her death, tension tight as a clenched fist grips the uneasy village. Meanwhile, the suspects keep rolling in, and Heppleburn''s friendly neighbourhood killer continues his nasty piece of work .

The eighth book in Ann Cleeves'' bestselling Shetland series - a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall.

When aggressive bird-watcher Greg Franks'' bludgeoned body is found floating in the ocean, detective George Palmer-Jones sets out to find the killer