Ann Cleeves

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

Ann Cleeves
Born	1954
Nationality	United Kingdom
Genre	Crime
Notable awards	Duncan Lawrie Dagger 2006

Ann Cleeves (born 1954) is a British crime-writer. In 2006 she won the inaugural Duncan Lawrie Dagger, the richest crime-writing prize in the world, for her novel Raven Black.^[1] Cleeves studied English at Sussex University but dropped out. She then took up various jobs including cook, auxiliary coastguard, probation officer, library outreach worker and child care officer.^[2] She lives in Whitley Bay.^[3]

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

In 2014 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Sunderland.^[4]

In 2015, Ann is the Programming Chair for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival & the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.

In 2015 Ann was shortlisted for the Dagger in the Library UK Crime Writers' Association award for an author's body of work in British libraries (UK)^[5]

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

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); publication date 10 September 2015 in the UK and US.

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.^[6]

Raven Black (2006); Gold Dagger Award
White Nights (2008)
Red Bones (2009)
Blue Lightning (2010)
Dead Water (2013)
Thin Air (2014)
Too Good To Be True (2016, novella)

Other novels

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

References

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