The novelist Ann Cleeves has enjoyed phenomenal success with her Vera Stanhope series. Stanhope is an English homicide investigator. The 10th book came out last year and the series has been adapted ...

Ann Cleeves is the author of more than 30 novels, among them the series that inspired the hit U.K. TV series Vera and Shetland. Her many honors have included the Crime Writers’ Association’s highest ...

As the best-selling author of more than 35 mysteries, British novelist Ann Cleeves has brought to life celebrated detectives Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez, and more recently Matthew Venn, three of the ...

He is soon embroiled in the investigation of a murder close to his new home when the body of a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck is found on the beach. It draws Venn back into a community ...