Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves (born 1954) is a British crime-writer. In 2006 she was the first author to win the inaugural Duncan Lawrie Dagger, the richest crime-writing prize in the world, for her novel Raven Black.

Hidden Depths has been dramatised as the new TV detective series Vera on ITV, starring Brenda Blethyn in the lead role as Vera Stanhope. It made its debut in May 2011.

Bibliography

George & Molly novels

• A Bird in the Hand (1986)
• Come Death and High Water (1987)
• Murder in Paradise (1988)
• A Prey to Murder (1989)
• Another Man's Poison (1992)
• Sea Fever (1993)
• The Mill on the Shore (1994)
• High Island Blues (1996)

Inspector Ramsay

• A Lesson in Dying (1990)
• Murder in My Backyard (1991)
• A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy (1992)
• Killjoy (1993)
• The Healers (1995)
• The Baby Snatcher (1997)

Vera Stanhope

• The Crow Trap (1999)
• Telling Tales (2005)
• Hidden Depths (2007)
• Silent Voices (2011)

Shetland Island Quartet

• Raven Black (2006); Gold Dagger Award
• White Nights (2008)
• Red Bones (2009)
• Blue Lightning (2010)

Other novels

• The Sleeping and the Dead (2001)
• Burial of Ghosts (2003)

External links

• Ann Cleeves: biography
• Ann Cleeves Interview with WritersNewsWeekly.com