Anne Cleeves. Minotaur, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-06994-8
In Cleeves’s exquisitely plotted sixth Shetland mystery (after 2013’s Dead Water), bridesmaid Eleanor Longstaff disappears during a wedding ceremony on the island. When she turns up dead in a shallow loch, Det. Insp. Willow Reeves and colleague...
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Ann Cleeves. Minotaur, $26.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-250-12484-5
In CWA Diamond Dagger–winner Cleeves’s excellent eighth Shetland Island mystery (after 2017’s Cold Earth), designer Helena Fleming and her family have settled in a remote community on Shetland, where she has become a local celebrity by using “Shetlan
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Ann Cleeves. Minotaur, $16.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-10736-7
The fatal stabbing of mercurial book critic Tony Ferdinand at the Writers’ House on the Northumbrian coast, where a group of crime writers has gathered, propels Cleeves’s fascinating fifth mystery featuring Det. Insp. Vera Stanhope (after Silent...
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Ann Cleeves. Minotaur, $16.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-13517-9
In Cleeves’s captivating third mystery featuring Det. Chief Insp. Vera Stanhope of the Northumberland police (after Telling Tales), Vera and the members of her team look into the murder of teenager Luke Armstrong, who was found strangled in his...
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Ann Cleeves. Minotaur, $25.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-250-12486-9
A prison outreach leads to a meeting between Vera Stanhope and John Brace, a now-incarcerated corrupt former police superintendent, in Diamond Dagger Award–winner Cleeves’s engrossing eighth mystery featuring the Northumbrian detective inspector (aft
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Ann Cleeves. Minotaur, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-10738-1
The ground shifts in more ways than one for Det. Insp. Jimmy Perez in CWA Diamond Dagger–winner Cleeves’s moody seventh Shetland mystery (after 2016’s Thin Air). At the funeral of old Magnus Tait, who was once accused of murder, the rain-soaked...
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Ann Cleeves. Minotaur, $16.99 trade paper (560p) ISBN 978-1-250-12274-2
Fans of the Vera Stanhope novels already available in the U.S., as well as the TV series Vera, will welcome Cleeves’s intricate series opener (first published in 1998), which introduced the Northumberland detective inspector. Three very different...
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Ann Cleeves. Minotaur, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-10542-4
In British author Cleeves’s atmospheric and well-wrought seventh mystery featuring Det. Insp. Vera Stanhope (after 2015’s Harbour Street), 25-year-old graduate student Patrick Randle has come from London to house-sit for a grand family in the gentle
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Ann Cleeves. Minotaur, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-07066-1
The fatal stabbing of 70-year-old Margaret Krukowski on a train car filled with Christmas shoppers propels British author Cleeves’s excellent sixth mystery featuring Northumbrian Det. Insp. Vera Stanhope (after 2012’s The Glass Room). While some...
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Ann Cleeves, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur $24.95 (374p) ISBN 978-0-312-35966-9
Set in the remote Scottish Shetland Islands, Cleeves’s taut, atmospheric thriller, the first in a new series, will keep readers guessing until the last page. Det. Insp. Jimmy Perez investigates the murder of teenage Catherine Ross, found...
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Ann Cleeves. Minotaur, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-03660-5
The murder of prying journalist Jerry Markham propels Cleeves's absorbing fourth Shetland mystery (after 2010's Blue Lightning). Shrewd Det. Insp. Willow Reeves, from the west of Scotland, deals with the tightly-wound local prosecutor, Rhona Laing,...
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Ann Cleeves. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-2500-3358-1
Northumbrian Det. Insp. Vera Stanhope makes her winning U.S. debut in this mildly chaotic police procedural, the fourth entry in a series that’s the basis for Vera, a British TV crime show now filming its third season. When Vera discovers the...
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Ann Cleeves, Author Fawcett Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-14789-4
Cleeves ( Murder in My Backyard ) allows her respect for the traditional mystery to fossilize her writing into a formula. The victim is the vicar's wife. The setting is a prototypical English town during a fair. The detective, Inspector Ramsay, is...
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Ann Cleeves, Author . Minotaur $24.99 (391p) ISBN 978-0-312-38434-0
In Cleeves's excellent third Shetland Island thriller (after White Nights
), Insp. Jimmy Perez investigates the shooting death of Mima Wilson, the grandmother of Perez's bumbling if well-meaning underling, Sandy Wilson. While some believe...
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Ann Cleeves, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $24.95 (391p) ISBN 978-0-312-38433-3
In Dagger-winner Cleeves's uneven second installment in her Shetland Island quartet (after Raven Black
), Insp. Jimmy Perez sees a stranger sobbing in front of a painting at an art exhibit featuring the work of Perez's new girlfriend, Fran
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Ann Cleeves, Author, Ann Cleves, Author Fawcett Books $5.5 (261p) ISBN 978-0-449-14979-9
Cleeves, author of The Mill on the Shore, turns what should have been a quiet birdwatching holiday in Texas into a multiple crime scene, with new bodies discovered almost daily. When Mick, one of three friends, is murdered, the local police peg tour
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Anne Cleeves, Author, Ann Cleeves, Author Fawcett Books $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-14707-8
Bribery, blackmail and suspects abound in this confusing ornithological whodunit. Seasoned private detective and bird-watching enthusiast George Palmer-Jones and his wife stet commas around Molly/he has only one wife/pk Molly are hired by a...
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Ann Cleeves. Minotaur, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-20444-8
Set in Devon, England, this thoughtful series launch from bestseller Cleeves (the Vera Stanhope series) introduces Det. Insp. Matthew Venn, who spent his childhood among the Barum Brethren, a strict evangelical community led by the charismatic...
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Ann Cleeves. Minotaur, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-20450-9
CWA Diamond Dagger Award winner Cleeves’s superb ninth novel featuring astute, irascible Det. Insp. Vera Stanhope (after 2017’s The Seagull) finds Vera driving home late one night through rural Northumberland in a blizzard when she comes upon a car...
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Ann Cleeves. Minotaur, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-20447-9
In Agatha Award winner Cleeves’s well-crafted sequel to 2019’s The Long Call, Det. Matthew Venn investigates the murder of retired physician Nigel Yeo, who was found by his glassblower daughter, Eve Yeo, in her Devon, England, studio with a shard...
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Ann Cleeves. Minotaur, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-20453-0
In bestseller Cleeves’s melancholy 10th Vera Stanhope novel (after 2020’s The Darkest Evening), sexagenarians Rick Kelsall, Annie Laidler, and two other old friends reunite at the tidal island convent-turned-guesthouse where they met as teens during
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Ann Cleeves. Minotaur, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-83677-9
Bestseller Cleeves’s outstanding third Matthew Venn novel (following 2021’s The Heron’s Cry) sees the detective returning to a small village on the northern English coast to solve a pair of murders. In the middle of a storm one September afternoon,...
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Ann Cleeves. Minotaur, $29 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-83684-7
The murder of an employee at a home for troubled youth triggers a search for a missing girl in bestseller Cleeves’s forceful 11th Vera Stanhope mystery (after The Rising Tide). When 14-year-old Rosebank Home resident Chloe Spence vanishes the same...
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