Ann Cleeves

The Killing Stones marks the eagerly awaited return of Ann Cleeves' beloved detectives from the Shetland series, and a gripping new investigation with a stunning new setting.

Three very different women come together to complete an environmental survey on the Northumberland countryside. Three women who, in some way or another, know the meaning of betrayal....

From Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller Ann Cleeves come the third Matthew Venn novel – following The Long Call, now an ITV adaptation, and The Heron’s Cry – in which the mysterious death of a celebrity on the Devon coast starts Venn on a path to the truth and straight back into his past....

Driving home during a swirling blizzard, Vera Stanhope's only thought is to get there quickly. But the snow is so heavy that she becomes disorientated and loses her way....

Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a splash of color on the frozen ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbor, Catherine Ross....

As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's beloved Vera series explodes in popularity, this stunning eleventh book explores the web of secrets surrounding a young man's death....

Ten years ago fifteen-year-old Abigail Mantel was murdered. Her father’s girlfriend was found guilty of the crime. Now, evidence has emerged that proves her innocence and means that Abigail’s killer still roams free. Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope is tasked with uncovering the truth....

A remote community with a killer in their midst....

A body is found by an early morning dog walker on the common outside Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The victim is Josh, a staff member, who never showed up to work. DI Vera Stanhope is called out to investigate....

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....

Ann Cleeves is well known for her 'Vera', 'Shetland', and 'Two Rivers' crime series. This collection includes full-cast dramatisations of the first two 'Shetland' novels featuring Detective Jimmy Perez, as well as three short stories and a discussion with the bestselling author....

In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father’s funeral takes place. On the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family, too....

A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Shetland to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends. But one of them, Eleanor, disappears....

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....

Sunday Times best-selling author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope series, Ann Cleeves returns with the first in a series set in North Devon and featuring Detective Matthew Venn. In this rural idyll, where two rivers meet, crime is always there waiting to rise from the water....

The first mystery novel in the Palmer-Jones series by Ann Cleeves, winner of the 2017 CWA Diamond Dagger....

Inspector Jimmy Perez takes his fiancé home to Fair Isle, the tiny island he comes from, to meet his parents....

Thin Air is the sixth book in the Shetland series from Ann Cleeves, the number one bestselling author and creator of Vera and the Two Rivers. A woman disappears under supernatural circumstances, and detectives Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves must find the truth behind the ghoulish mystery....

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....

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 decides to help Willow....