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Ann Cleeves

Biography

Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves is the multi-million copy bestselling author behind three hit television series --- "Shetland," starring Douglas Henshall; "Vera," starring Academy Award Nominee Brenda Blethyn, and "The Long Call," starring Ben Aldridge --- all of which are watched and loved in the United States. All three are available on BritBox.

The first Shetland novel, RAVEN BLACK, won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for best crime novel, and Ann was awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger in 2017. She was awarded the OBE in 2022 for services to reading and libraries. Ann lives in the United Kingdom.

Ann Cleeves

Books by Ann Cleeves

The Raging Storm: A Detective Matthew Venn Novel
by Ann Cleeves - Fiction, Mystery

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 Matthew Venn. Greystone is a place he visited as a child, a community he parted ways with. Superstition and rumor mix with fact as another body is found, and Venn finds his judgment clouded. As the winds howl, and Venn and his team investigate, he realizes that no one --- including himself --- is safe from Scully Cove’s storm of dark secrets.

The Heron's Cry: A Detective Matthew Venn Novel
by Ann Cleeves - Fiction, 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 --- Dr. Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed with a shard of one of his glassblower daughter's 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 soon 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 Long Call
by Ann Cleeves - Fiction, Mystery

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. Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death. The case calls Matthew back to the people and places of his past, as deadly secrets hidden at their hearts are revealed, and his new life is forced into a collision course with the world he thought he’d left behind.