Ann Cleeves
Author
Series
Two rivers volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. Once loved and cherished, the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too. Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to...
2) Dead water
Author
Series
Shetland mysteries volume 5
Description
"Ann Cleeves returns to her critically acclaimed Shetland Island series with this stunning mystery featuring Inspector Jimmy Perez, who readers will remember from Raven Black, White Nights, Red Bones, and Blue Lightning. When the body of a journalist is found, Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted from outside to head up the investigation. Inspector Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop, but his local knowledge is needed in this case, and he...
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Series
Description
For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend that they lost to the rising causeway tide five years later. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera Stanhope is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends are hiding, and whether the events of many years...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Fierce winds, dark secrets, deadly intentions. When Jem Rosco-sailor, adventurer, and legend-blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity in their midst. But just as abruptly as hearrived, Rosco disappears again, and soon his lifeless body is discovered in a dinghy, anchored off Scully Cove, a place with legends of its own. This is an uncomfortable case for Detective Inspector...
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Series
Description
"North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder--Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbedwith a shard of one of his glassblower daughter's broken vases. Dr Yeo seems an unlikely murder victim. He's a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter. Matthew is unnerved, though,...
6) Wild fire
Author
Series
Shetland mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
[vii, 398] pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Hoping for a fresh start, an English family moves to the remote Shetland islands, eager to give their autistic son a better life. But when a young nanny's body is found hanging in the barn beside their home, rumors of her affair with the husband spread like wildfire. As suspicion and resentment of the family blazes in the community, Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate. He knows it will mean his boss, Willow Reeves, returning...
7) Vera: Set 8
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (357 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As disheveled and indomitable as ever, DCI Vera Stanhope leads her tightly knit team of Northumberland police through four more daunting cases. No one seems to know anything about the police officer whose body turns up in a slaughterhouse incinerator, the woman killed in a car crash meant to look like an accident, the suburban neighbor found dead in her back garden, and the teenager whose body floats to the surface of a reservoir. How will Vera break...
9) Vera: Set 5
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (371 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the award-winning novels by Ann Cleeves. A cantankerous but brilliant detective solves unthinkable crimes in northeast England. Blethyn imbues DCI Vera Stanhope in this hit detective drama. Set Five includes four all new feature-length mysteries.
10) Vera: Set 3
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (369 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This is a compelling mystery series, inspired by Ann Cleeves' bestselling novel. Patrolling her patch of northeast England, Vera resolutely pursues the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. While her manner is sometimes caustic, her single-mindedness gets results.
11) Vera: [Set 1]
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2011.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (355 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows a solitary, obsessed, cantankerous investigaor-- who happens to be pure genius at her job.
12) Vera: Set 2
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2012.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (370 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows a solitary, obsessed, cantankerous investigator-- who happens to be pure genius at her job.
14) Vera: Set 4
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (370 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Northumberland Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope and her partner, Detective Sergeant Joe Ashworth, work to unravel four new crimes.