Winner of Britain’s coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, Ann Cleeves introduces a dazzling new suspense series to mystery readers.Raven Black begins on New Year’s Eve with a lonely outcast named Magnus Tait, who stays home waiting for visitors who never come. But the next morning the body of a murdered teenage girl is discovered nearby, and suspicion falls on Magnus. Inspector Jimmy Perez enters an investigative maze that leads deeper into the past of the Shetland Islands than anyone wants to go.

Noire Solitude (Shetland Island, #1)

Dans un coin perdu de l'archipel écossais des Shetland, une jeune archéologue déterre de mystérieux ossements humains, et avec eux les secrets de deux familles... Après Noire solitude et Blanc comme la nuit, le troisième volet des enquêtes de l'inspecteur Jimmy Perez, flic taciturne, compatissant et redoutablement efficace.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 Âge ?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 (Shetland Island, #3)

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

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

Murder in My Backyard

A woman is found dead in an apparent suicide - but there may be something darker at play. Featuring Inspector Jimmy Perez, Too Good To Be True is a gripping Quick Read from Ann Cleeves' bestselling Shetland series. Now a major BBC One drama, Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall. 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 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 .

Too Good To Be True

Une romancière qui, entre Patricia Highsmith et Elizabeth George, sonde à demi-motles méandres de l’âme.» Alexandre Lous, Le Magazine littéraireQuand John Brace, ancien flic à présent derrière les barreaux, annonce à Vera Stanhope, de la police du Northumberland, qu’il est prêt à lui faire des révélations sur une disparition jamais élucidée, elle accepte ses conditions.Mais enquêter plus de vingt ans après les faits ravive en elle de désagréables souvenirs. Tout semble en effet mener au Seagull, une boîte de nuit du front de mer où son père avait l’habitude de retrouver ses amis pour y préparer leurs mauvais coups.Alors que le passé remonte peu à peu à la surface, une question taraude Vera : et si son père avait jadis été complice d’un meurtre ?Comme à son habitude, l’inspectrice chef, aussi bourrue qu’attachante, ne ménagera ni ses équipiers ni les suspects pour élucider cette affaire classée.Née en 1954, Ann Cleeves vit dans le Northumberland, comté au nord de l’Angleterre où se déroulent Les Enquêtes de Vera, série à succès diffusée sur France 3. Elle a été récompensée en 2017 du Diamond Dagger, le prix britannique le plus prestigieux décerné à un auteur de suspenses. Ses romans Morts sur la lande et Des vérités cachées ont paru chez Archipoche.

Une affaire classée (Vera Stanhope #8)

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.

Shetland

When a woman's death finds Inspector Jimmy Perez out of his depth, he must dig up long-buried secrets to uncover the truth in Red Bones, the third Shetland mystery from Ann Cleeves. Now a major BBC One drama, Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall. After a young archaeologist uncovers a set of human remains, the island settlers are intrigued. Is it an ancient find - or a more contemporary mystery?Then, in the middle of the night, an elderly woman is shot dead. It appears to be a tragic accident, but Jimmy Perez is called to investigate. The sparse landscape and the emptiness of the sea have bred a fierce and secretive people. As Jimmy looks to the islanders for answers, he finds instead two feuding families whose envy, greed and bitterness have lasted generations. To solve the crime - and prevent further bloodshed - Perez must ask questions that some on the island do not want to be asked .

Red Bones

A body is found in the wreckage of a destroyed home. Consumed by the investigation, Inspector Jimmy Perez struggles for the truth in Cold Earth, the seventh Shetland mystery from Ann Cleeves. Now a major BBC One drama, Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall. In the black days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main road and sweeps down to the sea. At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Inspector Jimmy Perez watches the flood of peaty water and mud smash through a croft house in its path. Everyone thinks the croft is uninhabited, but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress. Perez becomes obsessed with finding out her identity and what she was doing there. Then it emerges that she was already dead when the landslide hit the house and, suddenly, Perez finds himself with a murder to solve .

Noire Solitude (Shetland Island, #1)

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