When you think of the best of British crime drama, Ann Cleeves’s name is always near the top. From the highly successful Vera Stanhope series to the critically acclaimed Shetland Island mysteries (both of which have been adapted into fantastic television shows), Cleeves has cemented herself as a force to… Read more
From CWA Diamond Dagger Award winner Ann Cleeves comes The Glass Room, the fifth book in the Vera Stanhope series, published for the first time in the US. Read Janet Webb’s review of The Glass Room! DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her hippy neighbors keep her well-supplied… Read more
From CWA Diamond Dagger Award winner Ann Cleeves comes The Glass Room, the fifth book in the Vera Stanhope series, published for the first time in the US. The Glass Room is the fifth book in Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope series. Since 2011, Detective Chief Inspector Stanhope has been portrayed by actor… Read more
GIFnotes: Giving you the basic plot summary of an upcoming book with the help of the Graphics Interchange Format. From Crime Writers Association's Diamond Dagger Award winner Ann Cleeves comes The Glass Room, published for the first time in the US—take a visual tour of the fifth Vera Stanhope mystery with GIFnotes!
Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! This week, the first in Jessica Fellowes's new historical mystery series set in the Mitford household… Read more
Now available in the U.S., Hidden Depths is the third book in Diamond Dagger award-winning crime novelist Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope series, brought to life in the hit TV series Vera (available January 23, 2018). From the very first sentence of Ann Cleeves’s book Raven Black, she had a fan… Read more
Read an excerpt from Hidden Depths!
Now available in the U.S., Hidden Depths is the third book in Diamond Dagger award-winning crime novelist Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope series, brought to life in the hit TV series Vera (available January 23, 2018). On a hot summer on the Northumberland coast, Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night… Read more
The Seagull by Ann Cleeves is the eighth book in the Vera Stanhope series—a searing new novel about corruption deep in the heart of a community and fragile, fracturing family relationships (available September 5, 2017). As a former theatre professional, I spent far too much time thinking of parallels between this… Read more
