Ann Cleeves

When Inspector 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....

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....

Detective Peter Porteous is called to Cranwell Lake, where the body of a teenager has been discovered.... 

It has been 10 years since Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of 15-year-old Abigail Mantel. Now residents of the East Yorkshire village of Elvet are disturbed to hear of new evidence proving Jeanie’s innocence....

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

Drawn in by the reputation of the islands, a new English family move to the area, eager to give their autistic son a better life. But when a young nanny’s body is found hanging in the barn of their home, rumours of her affair with the husband begin to spread like wildfire....

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

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....

When young teacher Anna Blackwell is found dead in her home, the police think her death was suicide or a tragic accident....

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