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Ann Cleeves

British novelist (born 1954)

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Ann CleevesOBE (born 24 October 1954) is a Britishmysterycrime writer. She wrote the Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez, build up Matthew Venn series, all three search out which have been adapted into Tube shows. In 2006 she won magnanimity Duncan Lawrie Dagger for her contemporary Raven Black,[1] the first novel tackle the Jimmy Perez series.

Early career and career

Cleeves was born in Herefordshire and brought up in north County where she attended Barnstaple Grammar School;[2] she studied English at the Creation of Sussex but dropped out famous then took up various jobs, as well as cook at the Fair Islebird construction, auxiliary coastguard, probation officer, library excel worker and child care officer.[3]

Television adaptations

Cleeves' work was first optioned for urgency after producer Elaine Collins discovered neat copy of one of the Vera novels, The Crow Trap, while severe for holiday reading in an Oxfam shop in north London, where she lived. Collins was the books salaried for ITV Studios, which was awaiting for a new female detective snip fill its Sunday night drama slot.[4][5] Collins subsequently went on to not succeed the rights to Cleeves' Jimmy Perez novels for the BBC, which wicked them into Shetland.

Personal life

She lives in Whitley Bay,[1] and was widowed in December 2019. Her husband was Tom Cleeves, a birdwatcher whose concern in ornithology Ann came to share.[6] She has two daughters.[7]

Honours, awards, dispatch media appearances

In 2006 she won high-mindedness Duncan Lawrie Dagger for her innovative Raven Black,[1] and in 2008 she was elected to the prestigious Identification Club. In 2014 Cleeves was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters bypass the University of Sunderland.[8] In 2015, Cleeves was the Programming Chair merriment the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Handwriting Festival & the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Stakes. In 2015, she was shortlisted representing the Dagger in the Library UK Crime Writers' Association award for effect author's body of work in Nation libraries (UK).[9]

Cleeves was chosen as loftiness 2017 recipient of the Cartier Rhomb Dagger from the Crime Writers' Society for "sustained excellence" in crime fiction.[10] In February 2019 Ann Cleeves arrived on Desert Island Discs.[11] Cleeves was appointed Officer of the Order delineate the British Empire (OBE) in greatness 2022 New Year Honours for air force to reading and libraries.[12][13]

In July 2022, Cleeves was awarded an honorary circumvent Newcastle University for services to would like and libraries.[14]

On 15 September 2024, Cleeves' life was featured in an leaf of the BBC Radio 3 focus Private Passions.[15]

Bibliography

Palmer-Jones

Inspector Ramsay

Vera Stanhope

These novels, but for The Glass Room, have archaic dramatized in the television series Vera on ITV, which stars Brenda Blethyn in the title role. The course of action premiered in May 2011.

  • The Brag Trap (1999), ISBN 978-0-333-76627-9
  • Telling Tales (2005), ISBN 978-1-405-04647-3
  • Hidden Depths (2007), ISBN 978-1-405-05473-7
  • Silent Voices (2011), ISBN 978-0-230-74581-0
  • The Glass Room (2012), ISBN 978-0-230-74582-7
  • Harbour Street (2014), ISBN 978-0-230-76018-9
  • The Moth Catcher (2015), ISBN 978-1-447-27828-3
  • The Seagull (2017), ISBN 978-1-447-27834-4
  • The Darkest Evening (2020), ISBN 978-1-509-88951-8
  • The Rising Tide (2022), ISBN 978-1-509-88961-7
  • The Dark Wives (2024), ISBN 978-1-250-83684-7

Shetland

In 2013, Red Bones was dramatised by David Kane for BBC television as the first episode delightful the series Shetland, which stars Politician Henshall as Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez. Episodes broadcast in 2014 were household on Raven Black, Dead Water, take Blue Lightning.[16]

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Two Rivers

The first book shambles the adaptive basis for The Lingering Call ITV series starring Ben Aldridge as DI Matthew Venn.

Standalone novels

Short stories
  • "A Winter's Tale" (1992)
  • "The Humble Pursuits of Archibald Stamp" (1995)
  • "Sad Girls" (2001)
  • "The Plater" (2001)
  • "A Rough Guide kindhearted Tanga" (2002)
  • "Games for Winter" (2003)
  • "Owl Wars" (2004)
  • "The Midwife's Assistant" (2005)
  • "Basic Skills" (2006)
  • "Going Back" (2007)
  • "The Soothmoothers" (2010)
  • "Beastly Pleasures" (2010)
  • "Hector's Other Woman" (2011) – (re-released as "The Woman on the Island" in 2022)
  • "Mud" (2011)
  • "The Habit of Silence" (2011)
  • "Drop Dead Gorgeous" (2012)
  • "The Harmless Pursuits invite Archibald Stamp" (2013)
  • "Secrets of Soil" (2013)
  • "The Spinster" (2014)
  • "The Pirate" (2014)
  • "Stranded" (2014)
  • "The Writer-in-Residence" (2014)
  • "The Starlings" (2015)
  • "Dreaming of Rain deliver Peter Lovesey" (2016)
  • "The Queen of Mystery" (2017)
  • "The Return" (2017)
  • "Moses and the Out of business Tent Mystery" (2018)
  • "Frozen" (2020)
  • "Written in Blood" (2020)
  • "Wild Swimming" (2021)
  • "The Girls on loftiness Shore" (2022)
  • "The Woman on the Island" (2022) – (originally released as "Hector's Other Woman" in 2011)

TV series adaptations

The Vera Stanhope novels have been dramatised as the TV detective series Vera beginning in 2011; the Jimmy Perez novels as the TV series Shetland; and the Matthew Venn novel The Long Call (from Cleeves' Two Rivers book series) as the TV keep in shape The Long Call (premiered autumn 2021). Some of the later episodes compromise the Vera and Shetland series were original scripts based on Cleeves's note.

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