Ann Cleeves Discusses The Seagull with Brenda Blethyn

Ann Cleeves has saved the best for last. Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope is as persistent, devious, and laser-focused as always but her involvement this time is visceral. Vera’s still reeling from Detective Constable Holly Lawson’s death by drowning in The Rising Tide. One doesn’t envy newbie Rosie Bell, the newest member of Vera’s team. No…

A Special Note from Ann Cleeves on The Dark Wives

By Ann Cleeves

August 19, 2024

I trained as a social worker when I was in my twenties and occasionally worked with troubled young people who’d grown up in chaotic families. Perhaps, that was why a radio documentary about teens living in residential care moved me so much. The programme explored a few of the unscrupulous private companies that run residential…

Book Review: The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves

By Janet Webb

September 6, 2023

The Raging Storm is the third installment in the continuing Two Rivers series. It can be read as a standalone but if you’d like to know more about Detective Inspector Matthew Venn and his world, consider reading reviews of The Long Call, followed by The Heron’s Cry. When she was a teenager, Ann Cleeves lived…

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The Raging Storm: Ann Cleeves’s New Series Continues

By Ann Cleeves

August 1, 2023

It’s hard coming to the end of a series. I knew that the Shetland novels had run their course and I needed something different to spark my imagination. New characters to meet. I’d always dismissed suggestions that I should set books in Devon where I grew up. It lacked the wildness, the authenticity of Shetland…

Ann Cleeves Discusses The Seagull with Brenda Blethyn

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Book Review: The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves

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A Special Note from Ann Cleeves on The Dark Wives

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Book Review: The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves

By Janet Webb

The Raging Storm: Ann Cleeves’s New Series Continues

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