Bøger af Ann Cleeves

Winner of the 2017 Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger.The Glass Room is the fifth book in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series - which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn, Vera. DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her hippy neighbours keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation. But when one of them goes missing, her path leads her to more than a missing friend . . . Vera tracks the young woman down to the Writer's House, a country retreat where aspiring authors work on their stories. Things get complicated when a body is discovered and Vera's neighbour is found with a knife in her hand. Calling in the team, Vera knows that she should hand the case over. She's too close to the main suspect. But the investigation is too tempting and she's never been one to follow the rules. There seems to be no motive. When another body is found, Vera suspects that someone is playing games with her. Somewhere there is a killer who has taken murder off the page and is making it real . . .Enjoy more of Vera Stanhope's investigations with The Crow Trap, Telling Tales, Hidden Depths, Silent Voices, Harbour Street, The Moth Catcher, and The Seagull.

The ninth novel in the Vera Stanhope series from the Sunday Times bestseller Ann Cleeves; now a major TV series from ITV.

Winner of the 2017 Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger.Silent Voices is the fourth book in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series - which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn, Vera. When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, she wonders briefly if, for once in her life, she's uncovered a simple death from natural causes. Then Vera spots ligature marks around the victim's throat - death is never that simple . . . Vera revels being back in charge of an investigation again, working with Sergeant Joe Ashworth to find a motive. While Joe struggles to reconcile his home life with the demands of the case, death has never made Vera feel so alive. The duo investigates the victim's past and discovers a shocking case, involving a young child. Probing the secretive community, they try to stop a killer in the present who can't seem to let go of the past . . .Enjoy more of Vera Stanhope's investigations with The Crow Trap, Telling Tales, Hidden Depths, The Glass Room, Harbour Street, The Moth Catcher, and The Seagull.

Sunday Times bestselling author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope series, Ann Cleeves returns with the first in a brand new series set in North Devon and featuring Detective Matthew Venn. In this rural idyll, where two rivers meet, crime is always there waiting to rise from the water.

From Ann Cleeves-New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows-comes The Glass Room. "Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers."-Louise Penny DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her hippy neighbors keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation, and somehow bonds have formed. When one of them goes missing, Vera tracks the young woman down to the Writer's House, a country retreat where aspiring authors work on their stories. Things get complicated when a body is discovered, and Vera's neighbor is found with a knife in her hand.Calling in the team, Vera knows that she should hand the case over. She's too close to the main suspect. But the investigation is too tempting, and she's never been one to follow the rules. Somewhere there is a killer who has taken murder off the page and is making it real . . .

From Ann Cleeves-New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows-comes The Seagull."e;I loved The Seagull - quite simply it reminds me why Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers! I relish learning more about Vera with each book, and The Seagull provides fresh insight into one of our most complex and lovable sleuths."e;-New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny"e;Definitely one of the best crime novels of 2017."e;-Reviewing the EvidenceA visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detective superintendent, and now inmate, John Brace. Brace was convicted of corruption and involvement in the death of a gamekeeper - and Vera played a key part in his downfall.Now, Brace promises Vera information about the disappearance of Robbie Marshall, a notorious wheeler-dealer who disappeared in the mid-nineties, if she will look out for his daughter and grandchildren. He tells her that Marshall is dead, and that his body is buried close to St Mary's Island in Whitley Bay. However, when a search team investigates, officers find not one skeleton, but two.This cold case case takes Vera back in time, and very close to home, as Brace and Marshall, along with a mysterious stranger known only as 'the Prof', were close friends of Hector, her father. Together, they were the 'Gang of Four', regulars at a glamorous nightclub called The Seagull. Hector had been one of the last people to see Marshall alive. As the past begins to collide dangerously with the present, Vera confronts her prejudices and unwanted memories to dig out the truth . . .The Seagull is a searing new novel by Sunday Times bestselling author Ann Cleeves, about corruption deep in the heart of a community, and fragile, and fracturing, family relationships.

From award-winning and Sunday Times top five bestseller Ann Cleeves comes the captivating eighth, and final, novel in the Shetland Series featuring DI Jimmy Perez in his most personal case to date.

Ann Cleeves' bestselling series of crime novels, featuring Detective Jimmy Perez, now also adapted for a major BBC television series, draw their inspiration from the place in which they take place: Shetland. In this gloriously illustrated companion to her novels, Ann Cleeves takes readers through a year on Shetland, learning about its past, meeting its people, celebrating its festivals and seeing how the flora and fauna of the islands changes with the seasons.An archipelago of more than a hundred islands, it is the one of the most remote places in the United Kingdom. Its fifteen hundred miles of shore mean that wherever one stands, there is a view of the sea. It has sheltered voes and beaches and dramatically exposed cliffs, lush meadows full of wild flowers in the summer and bleak hilltops where only the hardiest of plants will grow. It is a place where traditions are valued and celebrated, but new technologies and ways of working are also embraced. Whether it is the drama of the Viking fire festival of Up Helly Aa in winter, or the piercing blue and hot pink of spring flowers on the clifftops, the long, white nights of midsummer or the fierce gales and high tides of autumn, Shetland is vividly captured in all its bleak and special beauty.

A Lesson in Dying is the first mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.Who hung the headmaster in the playground on the night of the school Halloween Party?Almost everyone in Heppleburn either hated or feared the viper-tongued Harold Medburn. Inspector Ramsay is convinced it was the headmaster's enigmatic wife but Jack Robson, school governor and caretaker, is determined to prove her innocence.With the help of his restless daughter Patty, Jack digs into the secrets of Heppleburn, and uncovers a cesspit of lies, adultery, blackmail and madness . . .

Killjoy is the fourth mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.The youth theatre cast are in their places but Gus Lynch's female lead is missing, that is, until she's found in the boot of his car . . .Detective Inspector Stephen Ramsay and Sergeant Gordon Hunter are assigned to head the murder enquiry, meanwhile violence is escalating on the Starling Farm Estate as police battle to contain the latest outbreak of joyriding. Is the death of Gabriella connected to the events at Starling Farm?When another death occurs, investigations suggest a possible link, and Ramsay realizes what could have provoked someone to kill . . . and kill again.

Murder in My Backyard is the second mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry . . . but here she is, murdered in her own backyard on a bitter St. David's Eve.When detective Stephen Ramsay starts asking questions in the village, a more ambiguous picture begins to emerge. Yes, old Mrs. Parry was loved by everyone, but sometimes her kindness had caused trouble. Yes, her two nephews were devoted to her, but they didn't really want her interfering in their rather complicated personal lives. Even among her neighbours, Alice Parry's helpfulness had sometimes misfired; and after her death, tension tight as a clenched fist grips the uneasy village.Meanwhile, the suspects keep rolling in, and Heppleburn's friendly neighbourhood killer continues his nasty piece of work . . .

A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy is the third novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.For Dorothea Cassidy Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the one day she could call her own, and would plan to visit people she wanted to see as a welcome respite from the routine duties that being a vicar's wife entailed. But one Thursday in June was to be more special than any other. It was the day that Dorothea Cassidy was strangled.As the small town of Otterbridge prepares for its summer carnival, Inspector Stephen Ramsay begins a painstaking reconstruction of Dorothea's last hours. He soon discovers that she had taken on a number of deserving cases - a sick and lonely old woman, a disturbed adolescent, a compulsive gambler, a single mother with a violent boyfriend and a child in care - and even her close family have their secrets to hide. All these people are haunted, in one way or another, by Dorothea's goodness. But which of them could have possibly wanted her dead?It is not until a second body is discovered that Ramsay starts to understand how Dorothea lived - and why she died. With the carnival festivities in full swing and dusk falling in Otterbridge, Ramsay's murder investigation reaches its chilling climax . . .

High Island Blues is the eighth and final mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.Swarms of migrating birds fall from the sky seeking shelter as the spring storms begin, but the birders are distracted by a far more shocking sight, Mick Brownscombe's dead body . . .Old college friends Rob, Oliver and Mick reunite on a bird watching tour to America. It is the first time in twenty years the three have been together - since the fateful holiday to America during which they met the enigmatic Laurie . . . The tour party is hoping for spectacular sights at High Island on the Upper Texas coast, but as the rain pours down and the birds descend, Mick is discovered dead. Back in Britain PIs George and Molly Palmer-Jones are working on a minor fraud case with name of Brownscombe Associates attached. So when George receives a desperate transatlantic call from his friend Rob, he is on the first plane to Texas.His investigations make little progress - until the second body is found . . .

The Baby-Snatcher is the sixth and final mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.Marilyn Howe's and her mother Kathleen are an inseparable duo, until one night Kathleen doesn't come home . . .Fifteen year old Marilyn turns up alone and frightened on Inspector Ramsay's doorstep so he takes the young girl home to the isolated coastal community known as the Headland. And in the Howes' dark and cluttered kitchen they find Kathleen safe and apparently well, though acting rather mysteriously. Six months later, Ramsay has more or less forgotten the strange incident, busy as he is on the trail of a local child abductor. Until he receives news that Mrs Howe has disappeared once more. And for the second time he is drawn into the strange relationships of the families living on the lonely Headland.Then a woman's body is washed up on the beach . . .

Another Man's Poison is the sixth mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.Molly Palmer-Jones arrives at her aunt Ursula's house one morning, only to find her body slumped lifeless on the sofa . . .Ursula Ottway's beautiful cottage is wanted by her landlord, politician Marcus Grenville, so he can convert it into a holiday residence. So when Ursula discovers that the illegal use of poisoned bait on Grenville's land has killed not only a rare bird of prey but her two beloved cats, she storms to his house and threatens revenge. Shocked and saddened to find Ursula's body the morning after this conflict, Molly and her husband George decide to piece together a picture of Ursula's last days. And it soon becomes clear that, for many people on the estate, hers was a very convenient death.The Palmer-Joneses embark on a murder investigation but even their professional expertise doesn't prepare them for what is to follow. A lifetime's worth of secrets must surface before a killer can finally be brought to justice . . .

Sea Fever is the sixth mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.A rare and unrecorded sea bird captures all the birders attention whilst right under their noses the most fanatical birder of them all disappears . . .Later, Greg Franks' corpse, the head bludgeoned, is found floating in the sea. Had it not been for Greg Franks, amateur detective George Palmer-Jones would not have been on the bird watching trip in Cornwall to the first place. He had been hired by Greg Franks' anxious parents to try and persuade their errant son to return home. George would have turned the case down flat but the offer of a free weekend's bird watching was too tempting to resist. Now, he must unhappily shoulder the burden of finding why the young man had been murdered.Who hated Franks enough to kill him? Almost everyone, it seems . . .

The Mill on the Shore is the seventh mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.Meg Morrissey refuses to believe that her husband James committed suicide.James was in high spirits because he'd finally completed his long awaited autobiography. He didn't leave a suicide note. But even more suspiciously the record of his life's environmental achievement, his magnum opus, has gone missing. Troubled, Meg calls in amateur sleuths George and Molly Palmer-Jones to investigate. They soon uncover that life in the Morrissey family is not as idyllic as it seems - relations with ex-wife Cathy are not as friendly as Meg makes out and James appears to have fallen for another women. But the disappearance of his autobiography is most puzzling of all, did he uncover a secret so damaging someone was prepared to kill for it?George and Molly must try to fit together the missing pieces of information to reveal who could have wanted James dead . . .

Too Good To Be True is a gripping Quick Read from Ann Cleeves, featuring Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez from the bestselling Shetland series.When young teacher Anna Blackwell is found dead in her home, the police think her death was suicide or a tragic accident. After all, Stonebridge is a quiet country village in the Scottish Borders, where murders just don't happen. But Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez soon arrives from far-away Shetland when his ex-wife, Sarah, asks him to look into the case. The local gossips are saying that her new husband, Tom, was having an affair with Anna. Could Tom have been involved with her death? Sarah refuses to believe it - but needs proof.Anna had been a teacher. She must have loved kids. Would she kill herself knowing there was nobody to look after her daughter? She had seemed happier than ever before she died. And to Perez, this suggests not suicide, but murder . . .

Picking up the primary scent of any investigation, this anthology of wicked tales paints a chilling portrait of modus operandi--the signature that identifies any repeat offender. In this collection of villainous narratives, a coroner reveals a body's telltale clues to his students as he unwittingly dissects his own relationship, a broken-down driver turns his roadside routine into a quite different type of pick-up, and two creative-writing tutors discuss the merits of "hard-boiled" versus "cozy" schools of crime writing while a murderous student points out that it's really procedure that counts. From the ex-doctor tenderly administering a final prescription to his victims to the party of finishing school debutantes exacting revenge on their lecherous host, these stories demonstrate that, even with the most despicable of crimes, there is always methodology within the madness.

En gruppe venner, der har holdt sammen siden universitetstiden, rejser fra Londons storbyliv til Unst, Shetlandsøernes nordligste ø, for at fejre, at en fra gruppen skal giftes med en shetlænder. Men sent om natten under bryllupsfesten forsvinder én af vennerne, Eleanor – tilsyneladende i den blå luft. Det er midsommer, en tid med lyse nætter og uforudsigelig tåge på Shetlandsøerne.Dagen efter opdager Eleanors veninde Polly en e-mail. Det ligner et selvmordsbrev fra Eleanor, hvis lig kort efter bliver fundet.Vicepolitikommissærerne Jimmy Perez og Willow Reeves bliver sendt til Unst for at undersøge sagen. Før Eleanor forsvandt, mente hun, at hun havde set spøgelset af et barn, som druknede i 1920’erne. Hendes venner havde fundet hendes interesse for spøgelset nærmest sygelig, men Perez og Reeves bliver hurtigt overbeviste om, at der gemmer sig mere bag Eleanors død, end de først troede.Ann Cleeves’ bemærkelsesværdige Shetland-roman udforsker spændinger mellem det traditionelle og det moderne – spændinger, der ligger dybt i hjertet af lokalsamfundet – og hvordan begivenheder, der fandt sted i fortiden, kan have en ødelæggende effekt i nutiden.Blå luft er en del af Ann Cleeves’ Shetland-serie, der er filmatiseret af BBC og følges af millioner af seere over hele verden. Bogen udkom første gang i 2014. Bøgerne kan både læses i forlængelse af hinanden eller hver for sig.Ann Cleeves (f. 1954) er en britisk forfatter, der blandt andet står bag en lang række krimier, der er udkommet i mange lande verden over. Hendes bøger om kriminalkommissær Vera Stanhope er blevet lavet til en populær krimiserie af ITV med titlen ”Vera”, og bøgerne om mord på Shetlandsøerne er blevet lavet til krimiserien ”Shetland” af BBC. Begge har ligesom bøgerne, de er baseret på, nået et stort publikum i store dele af verden. Ann Cleeves har modtaget flere udmærkelser for sin forfattergerning og blev blandt andet Officer of the Order of the British Empire i 2022."Ann Cleeves, der har kritiseret kriminalforfattere for en forkærlighed for ultravold, holder sig hellere til psykologi og beskrivelser af barske miljøer og kuldslåede skæbner på den fjernt beliggende øgruppe (...) forholdet mellem især politikollegerne er beskrevet med indlevelse og humor."- 4 hjerter, Politiken"Naturen drager, og forfatteren Ann Cleeves er eminent til at formidle miljøbeskrivelser – både på det overnaturligt naturskønne plan, men så sandelig også hvad angår det landsbyliv, som hersker i området."- Fyns Amts Avis"Bogen er velfortalt og spændende, og hun er god til at formidle den særlige stemning i et lille tyndt befolket lokalsamfund, og den store betydning naturens kræfter har på livet på de små udsatte øer. Er man blevet lidt "mæt" af de mange skandinaviske krimier, er denne serie en rigtig god afveksling, og er man glad for engelske provinskrimier er den et must."- Dagbladet Køge

Vicekriminalkommissær Jimmy Perez rejser hjem til sin fødeø, Fair Isle, for at præsentere sin forlovede for sine forældre. Efterårsstormen raser, og Fair Isle er isoleret. Øboerne føler sig fanget, og spændingerne vokser. Nok til at drive nogen til mord … Besøget udvikler sig til en efterforskning, da en kvinde findes myrdet i det anerkendte fugleobservatorium. Ingen kan forlade øen, før stormen lægger sig, og Jimmy Perez skal arbejde hurtigt. Der er en morder på øen, der måske vil slå til igen. Pressen skriver: »Krimien er spændende og truende og fuld af barsk natur, som ville kunne gøre enhver vanvittig. Jeg læste desuden en del om fugle under læsningen, og det virker, som om Cleeves har vendt hver sten, hun beskriver. Som at være der selv.« – Femina, Julia Lahme »Ann Cleeves har i alle fire bøger formået at gøre de barske øer og deres beboere levende, men Fair Isle-historien får ekstra farve af den fuglekiggerbesættelse, man genkender fra det virkelige liv. Heldigvis uden mord altså.« **** – Berlingske, Bente Cornelius

”Der var ingen vind, så hun kunne ikke sejle for sejl, men selv når hun sejlede for motor, blev hun aldrig træt af udsigten. Man får kun et ordentligt indtryk af Shetlandsøerne fra søsiden. Så kastede hun et blik ned i den åbne båd. En mand lå henover tofterne. Han havde lyst hår, og huden var hvid, så hans mørke øjne så underlige ud, som om han bar makeup. Allerede inden hun fik øje på det gabende sår i hans hoved og det indtørrede blod på kinden, vidste Rhona, at han var død.”Da graverjournalisten Jerry Markham bliver fundet død i en båd uden for den offentlige anklagers hus, går politiet på Shetland straks i alarmberedskab. De kender Jerry og hans ukuelige søgen efter sandheden, og det var formentlig den, der blev hans død. De finder ud af, at Jerry arbejdede på en sag om vedvarende energi, der truede Shetlandøernes store indtægtskilde, olie fra Nordsøen. Der er enorme økonomiske interesser på spil, så store, at nogen er villig til at slå ihjel for dem.Ann Cleeves’ bemærkelsesværdige Shetland-roman udforsker spændinger mellem det traditionelle og det moderne – spændinger, der ligger dybt i hjertet af lokalsamfundet.”Dødvande” udkom første gang i 2013 og er en del af Ann Cleeves’ Shetland-serie, der er filmatiseret af BBC og følges af millioner af seere over hele verden. Bøgerne kan både læses i forlængelse af hinanden eller hver for sig.Ann Cleeves (f. 1954) er en britisk forfatter, der blandt andet står bag en lang række krimier, der er udkommet i mange lande verden over. Hendes bøger om kriminalkommissær Vera Stanhope er blevet lavet til en populær krimiserie af ITV med titlen ”Vera”, og bøgerne om mord på Shetlandsøerne er blevet lavet til krimiserien ”Shetland” af BBC. Begge har ligesom bøgerne, de er baseret på, nået et stort publikum i store dele af verden. Ann Cleeves har modtaget flere udmærkelser for sin forfattergerning og blev blandt andet Officer of the Order of the British Empire i 2022.

”Enten havde morderen vidst, hvordan man gjorde, eller også havde det været rent held – det vil sige rent held for morderen. Der var viklet hvide fjer ind i det sorte hår, så det lignede en krans. Den gav Angela et fjantet præg, syntes Perez, og det mindede ham om en af den slags overpyntede hatte, som kvinder tog på til galopderbyer. Hun havde i hvert fald ikke haft fjer i håret, sidst han så hende. De måtte være blevet sat i håret, efter at hun var død.”En ung kvinde bliver fundet myrdet på et fugleobservatorium på Shetlandsøen Fair Isle. Liget er pyntet med fuglefjer, og det giver efterforskeren Jimmy Perez fornemmelsen af, at morderen håner sit offer. Samtidig trækker det op til storm, og pludselig lyder det, at ingen må forlade øen. Nu er Perez og de andre på fugleobservatoriet fanget på den forblæste lille ø med en morder i blandt sig.Ann Cleeves’ bemærkelsesværdige Shetland-roman udforsker spændinger mellem de udefrakommende forskere på fugleobservatoriet og de lokale beboere, som endnu er bundet af århundreders traditioner.”Stormvarsel” udkom første gang i 2011 og er en del af Ann Cleeves’ Shetland-serie, der er filmatiseret af BBC og følges af millioner af seere over hele verden. Bøgerne kan både læses i forlængelse af hinanden og hver for sig.Ann Cleeves (f. 1954) er en britisk forfatter, der blandt andet står bag en lang række krimier, der er udkommet i mange lande verden over. Hendes bøger om kriminalkommissær Vera Stanhope er blevet lavet til en populær krimiserie af ITV med titlen ”Vera”, og bøgerne om mord på Shetlandsøerne er blevet lavet til krimiserien ”Shetland” af BBC. Begge har ligesom bøgerne, de er baseret på, nået et stort publikum i store dele af verden. Ann Cleeves har modtaget flere udmærkelser for sin forfattergerning og blev blandt andet Officer of the Order of the British Empire i 2022.»Krimien er spændende og truende og fuld af barsk natur, som ville kunne gøre enhver vanvittig. Jeg læste desuden en del om fugle under læsningen, og det virker, som om Cleeves har vendt hver sten, hun beskriver. Som at være der selv.« – Femina, Julia Lahme»Ann Cleeves har i alle fire bøger formået at gøre de barske øer og deres beboere levende, men Fair Isle-historien får ekstra farve af den fuglekiggerbesættelse, man genkender fra det virkelige liv. Heldigvis uden mord altså.«****– Berlingske, Bente Cornelius