Telling Tales is the second book in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series - which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn as Vera . They thought she was a murderer. But now she's a victim .

Telling Tales

Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet againA 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, 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 .

A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy

Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet againCome Death and High Water is the second mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series. The picturesque privately-owned island of Gillibry off the North Devon coast turns out to be the perfect site for a murder .

Come Death and High Water

A New Short Story from Award-Winning Author Ann CleevesAnn Cleeves, the Sunday Times No #1 bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera, Shetland and Two Rivers series, returns with a darkly delicious short story featuring DI Matthew Venn, as featured on ITV's The Long Call. This enthralling tale also features an exclusive extract from the tenth Vera Stanhope novel The Rising Tide publishing later this year. It was winter. Cold and clear, a different sort of day for this coast where the westerly winds usually blew rain and cloud. Detective Inspector Matthew Venn is standing by his kitchen window when he first spots them. Two young girls, facing away from him, seemingly staring towards something in the distance. They are holding hands, and they are alone. Though not a natural with children, Matthew knows he must find out why the girls are here, on a school day, unsupervised. And so he meets Olivia and Imogen, a pair of sisters whose secrets Matthew must uncover if he hopes to get them home. The Long Call and The Heron's Cry, the first two novels in the Two Rivers series, featuring Matthew Venn, are available now.

The Girls on the Shore - An enticing short story from the author and creator of Vera, Shetland and The Long Call

Le deuxième volet des enquêtes de Vera Stanhope, l'inspectrice solitaire et grande gueule. Un suspense psychologique à couper au couteau sur fond de lande venteuse, par la nouvelle grande dame du polar anglais. Le petit village d'Elvet est sous le choc : Jeanie Long s'est suicidée. Emprisonnée pendant dix ans pour le meurtre de la jeune Abigail Mantel, elle a toujours crié son innocence. En vain. L'émotion est à son comble quand on apprend la réouverture de l'enquête ; des faits nouveaux tendraient à prouver que Jeanie disait bien la vérité. Mais, curieusement, les villageois ne semblent pas pressés de replonger dans le passé, et les langues ne se délient pas facilement. Jusqu'à l'entrée en scène de l'inspectrice Vera Stanhope, qui va déployer tout son art de l'interrogatoire pour lever le voile sur les secrets inavouables de ces vies en apparence irréprochables. Jalousies, fantasmes, liaisons incestueuses, chantages... A peine Vera se fait-elle une idée sur les coulisses de la petite communauté d'Elvet qu'un second crime a lieu. L'affaire va alors prendre un tour inattendu...

Morts sur la Lande (Vera Stanhope, #2)

Dans un coin perdu de l'archipel écossais des Shetland, une archéologue exhume de mystérieux ossements et, avec eux, les encombrants secrets de deux familles... Une nouvelle enquête de l'inspecteur Jimmy Perez, flic taciturne, compatissant et redoutablement efficace. Hattie en est convaincue : le jardin de Mima Wilson abrite les vestiges d'une demeure médiévale. Mais lorsqu'elle déterre un crâne humain teinté de rouge, la jeune archéologue s'interroge : ce squelette date-t-il vraiment du Moyen Age ? Peu de temps après, c'est le corps de Mima qui est retrouvé au fond du jardin : la vieille dame aurait été victime d'un accident de chasse. Une conclusion qui laisse Jimmy Perez perplexe. Et quand celui-ci découvre le cadavre de Hattie dans la fosse, impossible de nier l'évidence : c'est un huis clos meurtrier qui se joue sur l'île. Mais pour exhumer les sanglants mystères enfouis près des lochs, Jimmy va devoir faire preuve de beaucoup de patience... et de persuasion. Car les langues des insulaires sont dures à délier. Et, dissimulé dans la brume, un assassin semble bien décidé à conclure une oeuvre débutée des générations plus tôt.

L'heure écarlate

The Seagull is the eighth book in Ann Cleeves's Vera Stanhope series - which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn as Vera. Obsession never dies .

The Seagull

A journalist working on a story. Now his murder is a headline. Inspector Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate in Dead Water, the fifth Shetland mystery from Ann Cleeves. Now a major BBC One drama, Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall. When the body of a journalist is found in a traditional Shetland boat, Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted in to head up the investigation. Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop, but his local knowledge is needed and he decides to help the inquiry. Originally a Shetlander, the journalist had left the islands years before to make a name for himself in London, leaving a scandal in his wake. He had few friends in Shetland, so why was he back?When Willow and Jimmy dig deeper, they realize that he was chasing a story that many Shetlanders didn't want to come to the surface. One that must have been significant enough to kill him for .

Dead Water

In this gloriously illustrated companion to her crime novels featuring Inspector Jimmy Perez, Ann Cleeves takes readers through a year on Shetland. Discover its past, meet its people, celebrate its festivals and see how the flora and fauna of the islands change with the seasons. An archipelago of more than a hundred islands, Shetland 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 book to treasure, full of photos and insightful notes about the stunning location of the Shetland series, now a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall.

Telling Tales

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