Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet againAnother Man's Poison is the fifth 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 .

Another Man's Poison

Sur l'île la plus isolée d'Écosse, battue par les violentes tempêtes d'automne, un vieux phare est le théâtre de meurtres étranges. Un final électrique pour ce quatrième et dernier volet des enquêtes de l'inspecteur Jimmy Perez.

Par une nuit d'orage à Fair Isle, la directrice du centre d'ornithologie est retrouvée poignardée, des plumes blanches répandues en couronne dans ses cheveux.
Qui a pu commettre un tel crime sur cette île minuscule, uniquement peuplée de quelques chasseurs d'oiseaux rares et de résidants qui se côtoient depuis toujours ?
De retour sur les lieux de son enfance avec sa fiancée, Jimmy Perez va devoir mener l'enquête au sein d'une communauté qu'il connaît intimement. Privé de renforts à cause du mauvais temps, l'inspecteur ne pourra compter que sur lui-même pour délier les langues au plus vite.
Car Fair Isle se referme comme un piège sur les insulaires affolés. Et, dissimulé parmi eux, l'assassin attend l'heure de frapper à nouveau.

Bleu comme la peur

Harbour Street is the sixth book in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series - which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn as Vera. A silent community. A murderer among them .

Harbour Street - (Vera Series 6)

The Seagull is Ann Cleeves' searing eighth novel in the bestselling Vera Stanhope series, about corruption deep in the heart of a community, and about fragile, and fracturing, family relationships.Shrewd. Smart. Challenging. Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope is on the case.When prison inmate and former police officer John Brace says he's willing to give up information about a long-dead wheeler dealer in return for protection for his family, Vera knows that she has to look into his claims.But opening up this cold case strikes much closer to home than Vera anticipates as her investigation takes her back in time to The Seagull, a once decadent and now derelict nightclub where her deceased father and his friends used to congregate.As Vera's past collides dangerously with the present, she will have to confront her unwanted memories and face the possibility that her father was involved in what happened. The truth is about to come out but is Vera ready for what it will reveal?The Vera Stanhope series has been adapted as the smash-hit TV series, Vera,  starring Brenda Blethyn.

THE SEAGULL - VERA STANHOPE VOLUME 8

Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet againMurder in Paradise is the third mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series. Cheerful festivities take a dark turn when the groom's sister slips and tumbles to the perilous rocks below .

Murder in Paradise

Offshore, by bestselling crime writer Ann Cleeves, is a striking collection of eight short stories, all set on islands off the coast of the UK, and features cases for both DI Jimmy Perez on Shetland, and DI Willow Reeves on Uist in the Outer Hebrides. In 'Stranded', set on Hilbre near Liverpool, a young man's first love vanishes. In 'Hector's Other Woman', on Holy Island, we meet a young Vera before she becomes DI Vera Stanhope, and discover how she decides to enter the police force. One of the stories, 'Postcard from Skokholm', is written by Lynne Chitty, winner of Pan Macmillan's Bello imprint's short story competition, who introduces Ann Cleeves' beloved characters George and Molly Palmer-Jones to new readers. Ann Cleeves deftly captures the spirit of each island setting, and offers us a compelling new collection of mysteries.

Offshore - a short story collection

Meet Detective Matthew Venn. From Ann Cleeves, the Sunday Times bestselling creator of Vera and Shetland, The Long Call is the No.1 bestselling first novel in the Two Rivers series. Now a major ITV series, The Long Call, starring Ben Aldridge. In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family too. Now he's back, not just to mourn his father at a distance, but to take charge of his first major case in the Two Rivers region; a complex place not quite as idyllic as tourists suppose. A body has been found on the beach near to Matthew's new home: a man with the tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death. Finding the killer is Venn's only focus, and his team's investigation will take him straight back into the community he left behind, and the deadly secrets that lurk there.'A stunning debut for Cleeves' latest crimefighter' - David Baldacci, author of The 6:20 ManThe Long Call is the first entry in the Two Rivers series. Continue the mysteries with The Heron's Cry.

The Long Call - Now a major ITV series starring Ben Aldridge as Detective Matthew Venn

Par une matinée glaciale de janvier, Fran Hunter, tout juste de retour sur l'île de son enfance, remarque une scène étrange. Un éclat rouge, la danse macabre des corbeaux sur la lande couverte de neige. Et soudain, sous ses yeux, le cadavre de Catherine Ross, une adolescente du village. Tous les regards se tournent alors vers le coupable idéal : Magnus Tait, un vieil homme solitaire, simple d'esprit, rejeté par les habitants. Mais pour l'inspecteur Jimmy Perez, débarqué du continent avec ses hommes, la piste semble un peu trop évidente. Lorsqu'il décide de poursuivre ses investigations, la suspicion et la peur s'emparent de la petite communauté shetlandaise. Les portes se ferment tandis que le tueur rôde...

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