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Books by Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves is a British crime novelist whose two major series — Vera, set in Northumberland, and Shetland, set in Scotland — have been adapted for long-running BBC television dramas. The Long Call launched her third series, the Two Rivers books featuring Detective Matthew Venn, in 2019. Cleeves has won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. She is known for her detailed sense of place and her interest in outsider characters who illuminate closed communities.