Ann Cleeves

When Shetland detective Jimmy Perez finds a body in a hut used by fishermen, it seems to be a straightforward case of suicide. He recognises the victim - a stranger with amnesia who had disrupted a local party the night before his death....

In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family, too....

When the body of a journalist is found, Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted from outside to head up the investigation....

It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies buried beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a vivid splash of colour on the white ground, ravens circling above....

Three very different women come together at isolated Baikie’s Cottage on the North Pennines, to complete an environmental survey....

A visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detective superintendent John Brace....

Life seems perfect in Valley Farm, a quiet community in Northumberland. Until a shocking discovery....

DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but when one of her neighbours goes missing, she feels duty-bound to find out what happened.... 

A group of old university friends travel to Unst to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends to a Shetlander....

A hot summer on the Northumberland coast and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son strangled, laid out in a bath of water and covered with wildflowers....