Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves (born 1954) is an English crime-writer. In 2006 she won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger for her novel Raven Black.[1] Cleeves was born in Herefordshire and brought up in north Devon where she attended Barnstaple Grammar School;[2] she studied English at the University of Sussex but dropped out and then took up various jobs including cook at the Fair Isle bird observatory, auxiliary coastguard, probation officer, library outreach worker and child care officer.[3] She lives in Whitley Bay,[1] and is widowed with two daughters.[4]

For the wife of Henry VIII, see Anne of Cleves.

Ann Cleeves
Born1954 (age 66–67)
Herefordshire, England
GenreCrime
Notable awardsDuncan Lawrie Dagger 2006

The Vera Stanhope novels have been dramatised as the TV detective series Vera and the Jimmy Perez novels as the series Shetland.

In 2014 Cleeves was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Sunderland.[5] In 2015, Cleeves was the Programming Chair for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival & the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. In 2015, she was shortlisted for the Dagger in the Library UK Crime Writers' Association award for an author's body of work in British libraries (UK)[6] In February 2019 Ann Cleeves appeared on Desert Island Discs.[7]

Bibliography

Palmer-Jones
  • A Bird in the Hand (1986)
  • Come Death and High Water (1987)
  • Murder in Paradise (1988)
  • A Prey to Murder (1989)
  • Sea fever (1991)
  • Another Man's Poison (1992)
  • The Mill on the Shore (1995)
  • 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

These novels, except for The Glass Room, have been dramatized in the television series Vera on ITV, which stars Brenda Blethyn in the title role. The programme premiered in May 2011.

  • The Crow Trap (1999)
  • Telling Tales (2005)
  • Hidden Depths (2007)
  • Silent Voices (2011)
  • The Glass Room (2012)
  • Harbour Street (2014)
  • The Moth Catcher (2015)
  • The Seagull (2017)
  • The Darkest Evening (2020)

Shetland Island series

In 2013, Red Bones was dramatised by David Kane for BBC television as the first episode of the series Shetland, which stars Douglas Henshall as Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez. Episodes broadcast in 2014 were based on Raven Black, Dead Water, and Blue Lightning.[8]

The Four Seasons Quartet
The Four Elements Quartet
  • Dead Water (2013)
  • Thin Air (2014)
  • Cold Earth (2016)
  • Wild Fire (2018)

A Shetland Island series novella preceding Cold Earth was also released.

  • Too Good To Be True (2016; novella)

Travel & Description
  • Shetland (2015)

Two Rivers series
  • The Long Call (2019)

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

Ghost stories

In addition to her crime novels, Cleeves has written a number of ghost stories to be read at Newcastle upon Tyne's Literary and Philosophical Society. One of these was issued as part of the anthology Phantoms at the Phil. – The Second Proceedings (together with a live recording of the author performing it) in a numbered limited edition of 300 copies by Side Real Press.

  • The Midwife's Assistant (2006)

References
  1. Lobb, Adrian (19 March 2013). "Ann Cleeves interview for Shetland". The Telegraph. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
  2. "Anns Diary:On growing up and going back". 13 July 2010. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  3. "Island secrets inspire Shetland author Ann Cleeves". Retrieved 24 May 2016.
  4. "Ann Cleeves".
  5. Joanne Butcher (8 July 2014). "Vera writer Ann Cleeves gains honour from University of Sunderland - The Journal". journallive. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
  6. "Dagger in the Library". Dead Good Books. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  7. Desert Island Discs, 17 February 2019
  8. "'Shetland' gets full six-part series on BBC One". Digital Spy. 3 April 2013. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
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