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# The Complete List of Ann Cleeves Books in Order

By [@BookEnthusiasts](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts)

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Published 29 January 2023 · Updated 29 January 2023

Category: books & literature

Ann Cleeves is a beloved British author who has written a number of memorable and acclaimed crime fiction novels. Her work has been adapted into two hit television series, Shetland and Vera, and she has won numerous awards for her writing. Her novels are known for their strong characters and thoughtful, nuanced writing.

Her books are set in the north of England, Scotland, and the Shetland Islands, and feature Inspector Jimmy Perez and Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope. These characters have been featured in both TV shows, and many fans of the shows have gone on to read the books. Ann Cleeves' books have been released in a variety of formats, including hardcover, paperback, and digital editions. Some of her books have also been released as audiobooks, allowing readers to enjoy her stories in a different format. Below is a complete list of Ann Cleeves books in order.

Whether you are a fan of her work or are new to her writing, these books are sure to captivate your imagination and provide hours of thrilling entertainment. Happy reading!

## Items

### 1. [A Bird in the Hand](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/1/a-bird-in-the-hand)

Item ID: `1`

- Series: George & Molly Palmer-Jones Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ve5adbangxvwd4dx6zey.jpg)
- Year of Release: 1986
- Number of Pages: 224
- Goodreads Rating: 3.40
- Synopsis: Young Tom French was found dead, lying in a marsh on the Norfolk coast, with his head bashed in and his binoculars still around his neck. One of the best birders in England, Tom had put the village of Rushy on the birdwatching map. Everyone liked him. Or did they? George Palmer-Jones, an elderly birdwatcher who decided quietly to look into the brutal crime, discovered mixed feelings aplenty. Still, he remained baffled by a deed that could have been motivated by thwarted love, pure envy, or something else altogether. But as he and his fellow "twitchers" flocked from Norfolk to Scotland to the Scilly Isles, in response to rumors of rare sightings, George—with help from his lovely wife, Molly—gradually discerned the true markings of a killer. All he had to do was prove it . . . before the murderer strikes again.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Bird-Hand-Pan-Heritage-Classics/dp/1509856234/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674645974&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Bird-Hand-Pan-Heritage-Classics/dp/1509856234/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674645974&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 2. [Come Death and High Water](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/2/come-death-and-high-water)

Item ID: `2`

- Series: George & Molly Palmer-Jones Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/tekgdhno56ti3jijl2kx.jpg)
- Year of Release: 1988
- Number of Pages: 208
- Goodreads Rating: 3.79
- Synopsis: The privately-owned island of Gillibry off the North Devon coast is the perfect site for murder. A routine weekend visit by the Gillibry Bird Observatory Trust is made memorable by the owner's announcement that he is going to sell the island. A sale would mean the end of the Observatory...and of all that, for some of them, made life worth living. A fire in Charlie Todd's cottage added to their distress. And when, next morning, after a fierce storm, they found Charlie dead in a bird hide, their pleasant September weekend assumed a dangerous new face. Charlie Todd's murder can be seen as the deed of any member of the Trust. And it falls to one of their own, George Palmer-Jones, to unravel the identity of killer within their midst.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Come-Death-High-Water-Cleeves/dp/1447289064/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674645974&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Come-Death-High-Water-Cleeves/dp/1447289064/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674645974&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 3. [Murder In Paradise](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/3/murder-in-paradise)

Item ID: `3`

- Series: George & Molly Palmer-Jones Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/upq8remtbsi6pkxxyb1g.jpg)
- Year of Release: 1988
- Number of Pages: 188
- Goodreads Rating: 3.79
- Synopsis: The honeymoon was over . . . and Jim and his English bride, Sarah, had come home to Kinness to settle down. But first there was to be one huge celebration for the newlyweds, with the whole island present. And before the party was over, there would be a shockingly unexpected death. Somehow, in the dark of the night, Jim's young sister, Mary, slipped off Ellie's Head to the rocks below. A terrible end to a boisterously cheerful evening. But did Mary fall, or was she pushed? George Palmer-Jones, retired birdwatcher and amateur detective, suspected the latter, but proving it would be difficult: no one wanted to upset the balance of the island's ancient relationships. Yet those with something to hide inevitably try to hide it, and George, helped by Sarah, began to piece together a tragic story he wished he had never heard. Kinness was a paradise lost.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Paradise-Ann-Cleeves/dp/1447289072/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674645974&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Paradise-Ann-Cleeves/dp/1447289072/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674645974&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 4. [A Prey to Murder](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/4/a-prey-to-murder)

Item ID: `4`

- Series: George & Molly Palmer-Jones Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/mluetdvruwag80oewxdr.jpg)
- Year of Release: 1989
- Number of Pages: 184
- Goodreads Rating: 3.76
- Synopsis: 'The huge and powerful hawk dominated the scene. Its talons pierced the woman's flesh and the beak pointed towards her eyes . . .' The sight is a particularly horrible shock for George Palmer-Jones, ornithologist and amateur detective. An old friend of Eleanor Masefield, a beautiful and charming widow, he is staying with his wife, Molly, at Eleanor's family run hotel . . . On the other hand, Molly Palmer-Jones feels that Eleanor was more of a black than a merry widow - a ruthless manipulator of all those caught in her far-reaching web. Is Molly a little jealous, or is she right? And will she be in time to prevent another death?
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Prey-Murder-Ann-Cleeves/dp/1447289080/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674645974&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Prey-Murder-Ann-Cleeves/dp/1447289080/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674645974&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 5. [A Lesson In Dying](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/9/a-lesson-in-dying)

Item ID: `9`

- Series: Inspector Ramsay Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ll35mknodut30oh0pggq.jpg)
- Year of Release: 1990
- Number of Pages: 176
- Goodreads Rating: 3.53
- Synopsis: Who hanged the headmaster in the playground on the night of the school Hallowe'en Party? Almost everyone in Heppleburn either hated or feared the viper-tongued Harold Medburn. Inspector Ramsay is convinced it was the headmaster's enigmatic wife but Jack Robson, school governor and caretaker, is determined to prove her innocence. With the help of his restless enthusiastic daughter, Patty, Jack digs into the secrets of Heppleburn, and uncovers a cesspit - of lies, adultery, blackmail and madness.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Lesson-Dying-Ann-Cleeves/dp/1447289099/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674651701&sr=1-1-catcorr](https://www.amazon.com/Lesson-Dying-Ann-Cleeves/dp/1447289099/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674651701&sr=1-1-catcorr&tag=listium03-20)

### 6. [Murder in My Backyard](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/10/murder-in-my-backyard)

Item ID: `10`

- Series: Inspector Ramsay Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/qscwc8unzhywn1owouiq.jpg)
- Year of Release: 1991
- Number of Pages: 256
- Goodreads Rating: 3.85
- Synopsis: No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry . . . . . . But here she is, murdered in her own backyard on a bitter St. David's Eve. And when detective Stephen Ramsay starts asking questions in the village, a more ambiguous picture begins to emerge. Yes, old Mrs. Parry was loved by everyone, but sometimes her kindness had caused trouble. Yes, her two nephews were devoted to her, but they didn't really want her interfering in their rather complicated personal lives. Even among her neighbours, Alice Parry's helpfulness had sometimes misfired; and after her death, tension tight as a clenched fist grips the uneasy village. Meanwhile, the suspects keep rolling in, and Heppleburn's friendly neighbourhood killer continues his nasty piece of work . . .
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Murder-My-Backyard-Ann-Cleeves/dp/1447289102/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674651701&sr=1-1-catcorr](https://www.amazon.com/Murder-My-Backyard-Ann-Cleeves/dp/1447289102/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674651701&sr=1-1-catcorr&tag=listium03-20)

### 7. [Another Man's Poison](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/5/another-mans-poison)

Item ID: `5`

- Series: George & Molly Palmer-Jones Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/hmaz90c4s4hpeshmytx0.jpg)
- Year of Release: 1992
- Number of Pages: 400
- Goodreads Rating: 3.88
- Synopsis: When she finds her Aunt Ursula's body slumped lifeless on a sofa in her lonely cottage, Molly Palmer-Jones and her husband begin to piece together a picture of Ursula's last days. However, even the Palmer-Jones' professional expertise doesn't prepare them for what is to follow, and many secrets must surface before a killer can be brought to justice.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Another-Poison-Ulverscroft-Large-Print/dp/0708930387/ref=tmm\_hrd\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674645974&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Another-Poison-Ulverscroft-Large-Print/dp/0708930387/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674645974&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 8. [A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/11/a-day-in-the-death-of-dorothea-cassidy)

Item ID: `11`

- Series: Inspector Ramsay Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/cihlngu4jcnywxvijbyk.jpg)
- Year of Release: 1992
- Number of Pages: 274
- Goodreads Rating: 3.91
- Synopsis: For Dorothea Cassidy, Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the one day she could call her own, and would plan to visit people she wanted to see as a welcome respite from the routine duties that being a vicar's wife entailed. But one Thursday in June was to be more special than any other. It was the day that Dorothea Cassidy was strangled. As the small town of Otterbridge prepares for its summer carnival, Inspector Stephen Ramsay begins a painstaking reconstruction of Dorothea's last hours. He soon discovers that she had taken on a number of deserving cases—a sick and lonely old woman, a disturbed adolescent, a compulsive gambler, a single mother with a violent boyfriend and a child in care—and even her close family have their secrets to hide. All these people are haunted, in one way or another, by Dorothea's goodness. But which of them could have possibly wanted her dead?
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Death-Dorothea-Cassidy-Heritage-Classics/dp/1509856242/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674651701&sr=1-1-catcorr](https://www.amazon.com/Death-Dorothea-Cassidy-Heritage-Classics/dp/1509856242/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674651701&sr=1-1-catcorr&tag=listium03-20)

### 9. [Sea Fever](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/6/sea-fever)

Item ID: `6`

- Series: George & Molly Palmer-Jones Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ugyczgprbcm69crsgfxx.jpg)
- Year of Release: 1993
- Number of Pages: 188
- Goodreads Rating: 3.86
- Synopsis: Even if there had been no murder, the last trip of a small band of dedicated bird-watchers aboard the Jessie Ellen would still have been news. For George Palmer-Jones and the other avid crew members achieve every bird-watcher's dream when they sight a sea bird which has never before been recorded. In the subsequent excitement, however, no one notices the sudden absence of the most fanatical birder of them all . . . Later, Greg Franks' corpse, the head bludgeoned, is found floating in the sea. Had it not been for Greg Franks, amateur detective George Palmer-Jones would not have been on the bird watching trip in Cornwall in the first place. He had been hired by Greg Franks' anxious parents to try and persuade their errant son to return home. George would have turned the case down flat but the offer of a free weekend's bird watching was too tempting to resist. Now, he must unhappily shoulder the burden of finding why the young man had been murdered. Who hated Franks enough to kill him? Almost everyone, it seems . . .
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Fever-Ann-Cleeves/dp/1447288998/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674645974&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Fever-Ann-Cleeves/dp/1447288998/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674645974&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 10. [Killjoy](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/12/killjoy)

Item ID: `12`

- Series: Inspector Ramsay Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/odm38oiprotl22skc3nw.jpg)
- Year of Release: 1993
- Number of Pages: 216
- Goodreads Rating: 3.98
- Synopsis: Gus Lynch is directing the Youth Theatre through a rehearsal. The cast is in place but the female lead, Gabriella Paston, is missing. Later that evening her body is discovered in the boot of Gus's car. Detective Inspector Stephen Ramsay and Sergeant Gordon Hunter are assigned to head the murder enquiry. Meanwhile violence is escalating on the Starling Farm Estate as police battle to contain the latest outbreak of joyriding. Is the death of Gabriella connected to the events at Starling Farm? When another death occurs, investigations suggest a possible link. Ramsay realises what could have provoked someone to kill . . . and kill again.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Killjoy-Ann-Cleeves/dp/1447289110/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674651701&sr=1-1-catcorr](https://www.amazon.com/Killjoy-Ann-Cleeves/dp/1447289110/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674651701&sr=1-1-catcorr&tag=listium03-20)

### 11. [The Mill on the Shore](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/7/the-mill-on-the-shore)

Item ID: `7`

- Series: George & Molly Palmer-Jones Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/b88nsnzo4fnsz6mjtr5t.jpg)
- Year of Release: 1994
- Number of Pages: 248
- Goodreads Rating: 3.84
- Synopsis:
  > Meg Morrissey refuses to believe that her husband James committed suicide.
  > 
  > James was in high spirits because he’d finally completed his long awaited autobiography. He didn’t leave a suicide note. But even more suspiciously the record of his life’s environmental achievement, his magnum opus, has gone missing. Troubled, Meg calls in amateur sleuths George and Molly Palmer-Jones to investigate. They soon uncover that life in the Morrissey family is not as idyllic as it seems—relations with ex-wife Cathy are not as friendly as Meg makes out and James appears to have fallen for another women. But the disappearance of his autobiography is most puzzling of all; did he uncover a secret so damaging someone was prepared to kill for it?
  > 
  > George and Molly must try to fit together the missing pieces of information to reveal who could have wanted James dead...
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Mill-Shore-George-Molly-Palmer-Jones/dp/B09WNDMWHJ/ref=tmm\_aud\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674645974&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Mill-Shore-George-Molly-Palmer-Jones/dp/B09WNDMWHJ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674645974&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 12. [The Sleeping and the Dead](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/42/the-sleeping-and-the-dead)

Item ID: `42`

- Series: Standalone
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/xf9v2kosqerk2ej8bzhc.jpg)
- Year of Release: 1994
- Number of Pages: 400
- Goodreads Rating: 3.97
- Synopsis: A diving instructor makes a gruesome discovery in Cranwell Lakethe body of a teenager is found. As the police investigation gets under way in Cranwell, prison officer Hannah Morton is about to get the shock of her life. The teenager was her boyfriend, and she was with him the night he disappeared. The news report that a body has been found brings back dreaded memories from her past.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Dead-Ann-Cleeves/dp/0333906489/ref=tmm\_hrd\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674655760&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Dead-Ann-Cleeves/dp/0333906489/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674655760&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 13. [The Healers](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/13/the-healers)

Item ID: `13`

- Series: Inspector Ramsay Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/xmpxjefx0hbzjn3vgetz.jpg)
- Year of Release: 1995
- Number of Pages: 208
- Goodreads Rating: 3.95
- Synopsis: Isolated farmer Ernie Bowles was found lying on his kitchen floor, gruesomely strangled . . .News of the murder came to Inspector Stephen Ramsay early on Monday morning and he fears this case will not be simple. In his experience, most murders are straightforward: an explosion of family pressure, the loss of control in a fight. But Bowles seems to have kept himself to himself and had lived alone since his mother’s death. A seemingly unconnected women is then found strangled too, surely two such killings in the same locality are more than just chilling coincidence?When Ramsay hears of a third suspicious death, a very tenuous link between the victims takes on a new importance, for all were connected in some way to the Alternative Therapy Centre in Mittingford. Could one of the healers be a killer?
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/The-Healers-Inspector-Ramsay/dp/1447289021/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674651701&sr=1-1-catcorr](https://www.amazon.com/The-Healers-Inspector-Ramsay/dp/1447289021/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674651701&sr=1-1-catcorr&tag=listium03-20)

### 14. [High Island Blues](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/8/high-island-blues)

Item ID: `8`

- Series: George & Molly Palmer-Jones Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/pu9cexff0t8gtpmmsgx4.jpg)
- Year of Release: 1996
- Number of Pages: 249
- Goodreads Rating: 3.86
- Synopsis:
  > Swarms of migrating birds fall from the sky seeking shelter as the spring storms begin, but the birders are distracted by a far more shocking sight, Mick Brownscombe’s dead body....
  > 
  > Old college friends Rob, Oliver and Mick reunite on a bird-watching tour to America. It is the first time in 20 years the three have been together—since the fateful holiday to America during which they met the enigmatic Laurie.... The tour party is hoping for spectacular sights at High Island on the Upper Texas coast, but as the rain pours down and the birds descend, Mick is discovered dead. Back in Britain, PIs George and Molly Palmer-Jones are working on a minor fraud case with name of Brownscombe Associates attached. So when George receives a desperate transatlantic call from his friend Rob, he is on the first plane to Texas.
  > 
  > His investigations make little progress—until the second body is found...
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/High-Island-Blues-Palmer-Jones-Book/dp/B09VY4PDV3/ref=tmm\_aud\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674645974&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/High-Island-Blues-Palmer-Jones-Book/dp/B09VY4PDV3/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674645974&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 15. [The Baby-Snatcher](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/14/the-baby-snatcher)

Item ID: `14`

- Series: Inspector Ramsay Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/loraekevexndgt5l6dtj.jpg)
- Year of Release: 1997
- Number of Pages: 248
- Goodreads Rating: 4.05
- Synopsis: When fifteen-year-old Marilyn Howe turns up alone and frightened on Inspector Ramsay's doorstep he has little choice but to invite her in. Marilyn and her mother, Kathleen, are a familiar sight around Heppleburn, a strangely inseparable couple. But Kathleen has unaccountably failed to return home that evening, and Marilyn is fearful for her mother's safety. Ramsay takes the young girl home, to the isolated coastal community known as the Headland. And in the Howes' dark and cluttered kitchen they find Kathleen safe and apparently well, though acting rather mysteriously. Six months later, Ramsay has more or less forgotten the strange incident, busy as he is on the trail of a local child abductor. Until he receives news that Mrs Howe has disappeared once more. And for the second time he is drawn into the strange relationships of the families living on the lonely Headland. Then a woman's body is washed up on the beach . . .
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Baby-Snatcher-Ann-Cleeves/dp/1447289013/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674651701&sr=1-1-catcorr](https://www.amazon.com/Baby-Snatcher-Ann-Cleeves/dp/1447289013/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674651701&sr=1-1-catcorr&tag=listium03-20)

### 16. [The Crow Trap](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/15/the-crow-trap)

Item ID: `15`

- Series: Vera Stanhope Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/wuqkb37llmduftrkdnjf.jpg)
- Year of Release: 1999
- Number of Pages: 544
- Goodreads Rating: 3.86
- Synopsis: Three very different women come together to complete an environmental survey on the Northumberland countryside. Three women who, in some way or another, know the meaning of betrayal....For team leader Rachael Lambert the project is the perfect opportunity to rebuild her confidence after a double-betrayal by her lover and boss, Peter Kemp. Botanist Anne Preece, on the other hand, sees it as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. And then there is Grace Fulwell, a strange, uncommunicative young woman with plenty of her own secrets to hide...When Rachael arrives at the cottage, however, she is horrified to discover the body of her friend Bella Furness. Bella, it appears, has committed suicide--a verdict Rachael finds impossible to accept.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Crow-Trap-First-Stanhope-Mystery/dp/1250122740/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674652500&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Crow-Trap-First-Stanhope-Mystery/dp/1250122740/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674652500&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 17. [Telling Tales](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/16/telling-tales)

Item ID: `16`

- Series: Vera Stanhope Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/giv2vwwtvw2thb7ht0oi.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2004
- Number of Pages: 416
- Goodreads Rating: 4.09
- Synopsis: It has been ten years since Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail Mantel. Now residents of the East Yorkshire village of Elvet are disturbed to hear of new evidence proving Jeanie’s innocence. Abigail’s killer is still at large.For one young woman, Emma Bennett, the revelation brings back haunting memories of her vibrant best friend--and of that fearful winter’s day when she had discovered her body lying cold in a ditch.As Inspector Vera Stanhope makes fresh enquiries on the peninsula and villagers are hauled back to a time they hoped to forget, tensions begin to mount. But are people afraid of the killer or of their own guilty pasts?With each person’s story revisited, the Inspector begins to suspect that some deadly secrets are threatening to unfurl…
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Telling-Tales-Vera-Stanhope-Mystery/dp/1250122775/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674652500&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Telling-Tales-Vera-Stanhope-Mystery/dp/1250122775/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674652500&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 18. [Burial Of Ghosts](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/43/burial-of-ghosts)

Item ID: `43`

- Series: Standalone
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/uotdyf2mbhund2sncy0z.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2003
- Number of Pages: 352
- Goodreads Rating: 3.73
- Synopsis: Twenty-five-year-old Lizzie Bartholomew has had more than her fair share of struggles. Abandoned as a baby, she spent her childhood moving between foster homes. Now she is running away from her past ...A holiday in Morocco seems to be the perfect escape. Especially when she meets Philip, a fellow tourist who distracts her from her troubles. After a brief affair, Lizzie returns to England, to a solicitor's letter.Philip Samson has died. In his will, he has left Lizzie a gift of £15,000. But there are conditions attached to this unexpected legacy that will soon force Lizzie to confront terrifying secrets from her past life ...
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Burial-Ghosts-Ann-Cleeves/dp/1447241304/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674655936&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Burial-Ghosts-Ann-Cleeves/dp/1447241304/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674655936&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 19. [Raven Black](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/27/raven-black)

Item ID: `27`

- Series: Shetland Island Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/vjauib0uky3wlkerommi.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2006
- Number of Pages: 384
- Goodreads Rating: 3.95
- Synopsis: It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a splash of color on the frozen ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbor, Catherine Ross.The locals on the quiet island stubbornly focus their gaze on one man--loner and simpleton Magnus Tait. But when detective Jimmy Perez and his colleagues from the mainland insist on opening out the investigation, a veil of suspicion and fear is thrown over the entire community. For the first time in years, Catherine's neighbors nervously lock their doors, while a killer lives on in their midst.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Raven-Black-Shetland-Island-Mysteries/dp/0312359675/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674653758&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Raven-Black-Shetland-Island-Mysteries/dp/0312359675/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674653758&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 20. [Hidden Depths](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/17/hidden-depths)

Item ID: `17`

- Series: Vera Stanhope Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/kvrclpmemq2yspk27qqq.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2007
- Number of Pages: 384
- Goodreads Rating: 4.08
- Synopsis: On a hot summer on the Northumberland coast, Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son murdered. Luke has been strangled, laid out in a bath of water and covered with wild flowers.This stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera Stanhope and her team intrigued. But now, Vera must work quickly to find this killer who is making art out of death. As local residents are forced to share their private lives, sinister secrets are slowly unearthed.And all the while the killer remains in their midst, waiting for an opportunity to prepare another beautiful, watery grave…
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Depths-Vera-Stanhope-Mystery/dp/1250135176/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674652500&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Depths-Vera-Stanhope-Mystery/dp/1250135176/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674652500&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 21. [White Nights](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/28/white-nights)

Item ID: `28`

- Series: Shetland Island Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/j5tfwureqfg1rjcwosey.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2008
- Number of Pages: 400
- Goodreads Rating: 4.02
- Synopsis: Raven Black received crime fiction's highest monetary honor, the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award. Now Detective Jimmy Perez is back in an electrifying sequel.It's midsummer in the Shetland Islands, the time of the white nights, when birds sing at midnight and the sun never sets. Artist Bella Sinclair throws an elaborate party to launch an exhibition of her work at The Herring House, a gallery on the beach.The party ends in farce when one the guests, a mysterious Englishman, bursts into tears and claims not to know who he is or where he's come from. The following day the Englishman is found hanging from a rafter, and Detective Jimmy Perez is convinced that the man has been murdered. He is reinforced in this belief when Roddy, Bella's musician nephew, is murdered, too.But the detective's relationship with Fran Hunter may have clouded his judgment, for this is a crazy time of the year when night blurs into day and nothing is quite as it seems.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/White-Nights-Thriller-Shetland-Mysteries/dp/0312384424/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674653758&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/White-Nights-Thriller-Shetland-Mysteries/dp/0312384424/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674653758&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 22. [Red Bones](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/29/red-bones)

Item ID: `29`

- Series: Shetland Island Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/mhsfwzpfq4jpvkdkr5yc.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2009
- Number of Pages: 400
- Goodreads Rating: 4.02
- Synopsis: When a young archaeologist discovers a set of human remains, the locals are intrigued. Is it an ancient find—or a more contemporary mystery? Then an elderly woman is fatally shot and Ann Cleeves’s popular series detective Jimmy Perez is called in. As claustrophobic mists swirl around the island, Inspector Perez finds himself totally in the dark. This series is the basis for the hit BBC show Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall, which attracted over 12 million viewers in its first two nights on the air.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Red-Bones-Thriller-Shetland-Mysteries/dp/0312384343/ref=tmm\_hrd\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674653758&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Red-Bones-Thriller-Shetland-Mysteries/dp/0312384343/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674653758&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 23. [Silent Voices](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/18/silent-voices)

Item ID: `18`

- Series: Vera Stanhope Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/wq6g7tho1yy9aorpwuic.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2010
- Number of Pages: 352
- Goodreads Rating: 4.11
- Synopsis: When Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the steam room of her local gym, she wonders briefly if, for once, it’s a death from natural causes. But closer inspection reveals bruises around the victim’s throat....As she leads her team, Vera relishes the thrill she gets from running an investigation. Death has never made her feel so alive. But soon, the victim’s past reveals a shocking secret at the heart of Vera’s community, as she tries to stop a killer who wants deadly secrets kept silent.Singular, complex, and fiercely loyal, Vera has quickly become an iconic British detective loved by millions both on the page and on-screen, and Silent Voices showcases Ann Cleeves as a writer at the peak of her powers.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Voices-Vera-Stanhope-Mystery/dp/1250219825/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674652500&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Voices-Vera-Stanhope-Mystery/dp/1250219825/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674652500&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 24. [Blue Lightning](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/30/blue-lightning)

Item ID: `30`

- Series: Shetland Island Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/hi5v7uz7lmh8rjsdgvzg.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2010
- Number of Pages: 368
- Goodreads Rating: 4.11
- Synopsis: Inspector Jimmy Perez takes his fiancé home to Fair Isle, the tiny island he comes from, to meet his parents. The island is a magnet for bird watchers, who congregate at the local inn and lighthouse. When a local married celebrity, who had an eye for the lads, is murdered, Perez discovers that the suspects are very close to him indeed. With a sensational ending destined to create much buzz in the mystery world, Blue Lightning will thrill suspense fans everywhere.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Lightning-Thriller-Shetland-Mysteries/dp/0312384440/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674653758&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Lightning-Thriller-Shetland-Mysteries/dp/0312384440/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674653758&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 25. [The Glass Room](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/19/the-glass-room)

Item ID: `19`

- Series: Vera Stanhope Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/fbd6urvttw41w2ppgraw.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2012
- Number of Pages: 384
- Goodreads Rating: 4.03
- Synopsis: DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her hippy neighbors keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation, and somehow bonds have formed. When one of them goes missing, Vera tracks the young woman down to the Writer’s House, a country retreat where aspiring authors work on their stories. Things get complicated when a body is discovered, and Vera’s neighbor is found with a knife in her hand.Calling in the team, Vera knows that she should hand the case over. She’s too close to the main suspect. But the investigation is too tempting, and she’s never been one to follow the rules. Somewhere there is a killer who has taken murder off the page and is making it real . . .
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Glass-Room-Vera-Stanhope-Mystery/dp/1250135729/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674652500&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Glass-Room-Vera-Stanhope-Mystery/dp/1250135729/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674652500&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 26. [Dead Water](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/31/dead-water)

Item ID: `31`

- Series: Shetland Island Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/hqhkuwmvimnr7qbqoyrb.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2013
- Number of Pages: 416
- Goodreads Rating: 4.13
- Synopsis:
  > 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 decides to help Willow.
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  > The dead journalist had left the islands years before to pursue his writing career. In his wake, he left a scandal involving a young girl. When Willow and Jimmy dig deeper, they realize that the journalist was chasing a story that many Shetlanders didn't want to come to the surface.. .
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Water-Shetland-Mystery-Mysteries/dp/1250060958/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674653758&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Water-Shetland-Mystery-Mysteries/dp/1250060958/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674653758&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 27. [Harbour Street](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/20/harbour-street)

Item ID: `20`

- Series: Vera Stanhope Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ejx1irqewsczaodxviog.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2014
- Number of Pages: 382
- Goodreads Rating: 4.15
- Synopsis: As the snow falls thickly on Newcastle, the shouts and laughter of Christmas revelers break the muffled silence. Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter Jessie are swept along in the jostling crowd onto the Metro.But when the train is stopped due to the bad weather, and the other passengers fade into the swirling snow, Jessie notices that one lady hasn't left the train: Margaret Krukowski has been fatally stabbed.Arriving at the scene, DI Vera Stanhope is relieved to have an excuse to escape the holiday festivities. As she stands on the silent, snow-covered station platform, Vera feels a familiar buzz of anticipation, sensing that this will be a complex and unusual case.Then, just days later, a second woman is murdered. Vera knows that to find the key to this new killing she needs to understand what had been troubling Margaret so deeply before she died - before another life is lost. She can feel in her bones that there's a link. Retracing Margaret's final steps, Vera finds herself searching deep into the hidden past of this seemingly innocent neighborhood, led by clues that keep revolving around one street...Harbour Street.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Harbour-Street-Vera-Stanhope-Mystery-ebook/dp/B00XHJM93M/ref=tmm\_kin\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674652500&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Harbour-Street-Vera-Stanhope-Mystery-ebook/dp/B00XHJM93M/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674652500&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 28. [Thin Air](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/32/thin-air)

Item ID: `32`

- Series: Shetland Island Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/siny5he27nu35s7auudb.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2014
- Number of Pages: 400
- Goodreads Rating: 4.08
- Synopsis: A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Shetland to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends. But, one of them, Eleanor, disappears―apparently into thin air. It's mid-summer, a time of light nights and unexpected mists. And then Eleanor's body is discovered lying in a small loch close to the cliff edge.Detectives Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves are dispatched to investigate. Before she went missing, Eleanor claimed to have seen the ghost of a local child who drowned in the 1920s. Her interest in the ghost had seemed unhealthy―obsessive, even―to her friends: an indication of a troubled mind. But Jimmy and Willow are convinced that there is more to Eleanor's death than they first thought.Is there a secret that lies behind the myth? One so shocking that someone would kill―many years later―to protect?Ann Cleeves' striking new novel is a quintessential whodunit with surprises at every turn.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Thin-Air-Shetland-Mystery-Mysteries/dp/1250091071/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674653758&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Thin-Air-Shetland-Mystery-Mysteries/dp/1250091071/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674653758&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 29. [Offshore](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/37/offshore)

Item ID: `37`

- Series: Shetland Island Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/kbaylcqtitirwpviuhgg.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2014
- Number of Pages: 72
- Goodreads Rating: 3.95
- Synopsis: In 'Stranded', set on Hilbre near Liverpool, a young man's first love vanishes. In 'Hector's Other Woman', on Holy Island, we meet a young Vera before she becomes DI Vera Stanhope, and discover how she decides to enter the police force. One of the stories, 'Postcard from Skokholm', is written by Lynne Chitty, winner of Pan Macmillan's Bello imprint's short story competition, who introduces Ann Cleeves' beloved characters George and Molly Palmer-Jones to new readers.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Offshore-short-collection-Ann-Cleeves-ebook/dp/B00PHGAO3U/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=3DS8OR0RMQSBV&keywords=offshore+ann+cleeves&qid=1674655091&s=digital-text&sprefix=Offshore%2Cdigital-text%2C192&sr=1-1-catcorr](https://www.amazon.com/Offshore-short-collection-Ann-Cleeves-ebook/dp/B00PHGAO3U/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3DS8OR0RMQSBV&keywords=offshore+ann+cleeves&qid=1674655091&s=digital-text&sprefix=Offshore%2Cdigital-text%2C192&sr=1-1-catcorr&tag=listium03-20)

### 30. [The Moth Catcher](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/21/the-moth-catcher)

Item ID: `21`

- Series: Vera Stanhope Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ntopfg1vs3bwgfs88om3.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2015
- Number of Pages: 224
- Goodreads Rating: 4.18
- Synopsis: Ann Cleeves' bestselling series of crime novels, featuring Detective Jimmy Perez, and now also adapted for a major BBC television series, draw their inspiration from the place in which they take place: Shetland. An archipelago of more than 100 islands, it is the one of the most remote places in the United Kingdom. Its 1500 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. In this gloriously illustrated companion to her novels, Ann Cleeves takes readers through a year on Shetland, learning about its past, meeting its people, celebrating its festivals and seeing how the flora and fauna of the islands changes with the seasons. 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.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Moth-Catcher-Vera-Stanhope-Mystery/dp/1250144698/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674652500&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Moth-Catcher-Vera-Stanhope-Mystery/dp/1250144698/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674652500&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 31. [Shetland](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/36/shetland)

Item ID: `36`

- Series: Non fiction
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/omhg55luxvtog1m0j14t.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2015
- Number of Pages: 400
- Goodreads Rating: 4.11
- Synopsis: Life seems perfect in the quiet community of Valley Farm. Then a shocking discovery shatters the silence. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter, a young ecologist, to look after the place while they’re away. But his dead body is found by the side of the lane―a lonely place to die.When DI Vera Stanhope arrives on the scene, she finds the body of a second man. What the two victims seem to have in common is a fascination with studying moths―and with catching these beautiful, intriguing creatures.The others who live in Valley Farm have secrets too: Lorraine’s calm demeanor belies a more complex personality; Annie and Sam’s daughter, Lizzie, is due to be released from prison; and Nigel watches, silently, every day, from his window. As Vera is drawn into the claustrophobic world of this increasingly strange community, she realizes that there may be many deadly secrets trapped there . . .
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Ann-Cleeves-Shetland/dp/1509809791/ref=tmm\_hrd\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674654823&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Ann-Cleeves-Shetland/dp/1509809791/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674654823&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 32. [Too Good To Be True](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/35/too-good-to-be-true)

Item ID: `35`

- Series: Shetland Island Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ik9iigdnisgculzznp2m.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2016
- Number of Pages: 112
- Goodreads Rating: 3.84
- Synopsis: 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 Detective 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...
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Good-True-Buddy-Eliot-Daniel/dp/1509806113/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=1MWWMQSHGD6XS&keywords=too+good+to+be+true+ann+cleeves+kindle&qid=1674654580&s=books&sprefix=Too+Good+To+Be+True+ann%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C220&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Good-True-Buddy-Eliot-Daniel/dp/1509806113/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1MWWMQSHGD6XS&keywords=too+good+to+be+true+ann+cleeves+kindle&qid=1674654580&s=books&sprefix=Too+Good+To+Be+True+ann%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C220&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 33. [Cold Earth](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/33/cold-earth)

Item ID: `33`

- Series: Shetland Island Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/izbhwsv656ar6vsn9xkx.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2016
- Number of Pages: 400
- Goodreads Rating: 4.14
- Synopsis: In the dark 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, Jimmy Perez watches the flood of mud and water smash through a house in its path. Everyone thinks the home is uninhabited, but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress. Perez soon becomes obsessed with tracing her identity and realizes he must find out who she was and how she died.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Earth-Shetland-Mystery-Mysteries/dp/1250182131/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674653758&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Earth-Shetland-Mystery-Mysteries/dp/1250182131/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674653758&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 34. [Dreaming of Rain and Peter Lovesey](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/44/dreaming-of-rain-and-peter-lovesey)

Item ID: `44`

- Series: Short Story
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/yfarvmgfoigtvvgumb1l.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2016
- Number of Pages: 12
- Goodreads Rating: 3.57
- Synopsis: The life of Ann Cleeves' ex-pat wife protagonist is one of boredom punctuated by stultifying dinner parties and making sure that her home is tidy and her husband is happy. When her favourite writer, Peter Lovesey, is due to appear at the Emirates Literature Festival, she is beyond thrilled. What will she do then when her husband changes their plans at the last minute?
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: -

### 35. [The Seagull](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/22/the-seagull)

Item ID: `22`

- Series: Vera Stanhope Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/jzehppaohiaoqkjctgun.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2017
- Number of Pages: 416
- Goodreads Rating: 4.22
- Synopsis: A visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detective superintendent, and now inmate, John Brace. Brace was convicted of corruption and involvement in the death of a gamekeeper – and Vera played a key part in his downfall.Now, Brace promises Vera information about the disappearance of Robbie Marshall, a notorious wheeler-dealer who disappeared in the mid-nineties, if she will look out for his daughter and grandchildren. He tells her that Marshall is dead, and that his body is buried close to St Mary’s Island in Whitley Bay. However, when a search team investigates, officers find not one skeleton, but two.This cold case case takes Vera back in time, and very close to home, as Brace and Marshall, along with a mysterious stranger known only as ‘the Prof’, were close friends of Hector, her father. Together, they were the 'Gang of Four’, regulars at a glamorous nightclub called The Seagull. Hector had been one of the last people to see Marshall alive. As the past begins to collide dangerously with the present, Vera confronts her prejudices and unwanted memories to dig out the truth . . .
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Seagull-Vera-Stanhope-Mystery/dp/125019332X/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674652500&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Seagull-Vera-Stanhope-Mystery/dp/125019332X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674652500&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 36. [Wild Fire](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/34/wild-fire)

Item ID: `34`

- Series: Shetland Island Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/txwlvxnofmge4qdpp1gz.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2018
- Number of Pages: 432
- Goodreads Rating: 4.21
- Synopsis: 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 to run the investigation, and confronting their complex relationship.With families fracturing and long-hidden lies emerging, Jimmy faces the most disturbing case of his career.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Fire-Shetland-Mystery-Mysteries/dp/1250226236/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674653758&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Fire-Shetland-Mystery-Mysteries/dp/1250226236/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674653758&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 37. [The Long Call](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/38/the-long-call)

Item ID: `38`

- Series: The Two Rivers Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/eyksws9qx4srxhaw8kxl.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2019
- Number of Pages: 400
- Goodreads Rating: 3.96
- Synopsis: In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father’s funeral takes place. On 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 death.The case calls Matthew back to the people and places of his past, as deadly secrets hidden at their hearts are revealed, and his new life is forced into a collision course with the world he thought he’d left behind.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Long-Call-Two-Rivers/dp/1250204453/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674655035&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Long-Call-Two-Rivers/dp/1250204453/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674655035&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 38. [Frozen](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/24/frozen)

Item ID: `24`

- Series: Vera Stanhope Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/gly3g1hdbdmllwy5dnto.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2020
- Number of Pages: 36
- Goodreads Rating: 3.81
- Synopsis: For once, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope is managing to have a good day off. Strolling around town, she ducks into a new bookshop in a renovated chapel. But just as she does, a skeleton is discovered in the old baptismal font. Soon, a decade old mystery is revived, and Vera must uncover secrets long buried before this case once again goes cold.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Frozen-Vera-Stanhope-Ann-Cleeves-ebook/dp/B08CT5FFPD/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=AVY5JZMSUSDA&keywords=frozen+ann+cleeves&qid=1674653489&s=digital-text&sprefix=Frozen+ann%2Cdigital-text%2C301&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Frozen-Vera-Stanhope-Ann-Cleeves-ebook/dp/B08CT5FFPD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=AVY5JZMSUSDA&keywords=frozen+ann+cleeves&qid=1674653489&s=digital-text&sprefix=Frozen+ann%2Cdigital-text%2C301&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 39. [The Darkest Evening](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/23/the-darkest-evening)

Item ID: `23`

- Series: Vera Stanhope Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/fmjiqtwiwe5hk7eflvf3.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2020
- Number of Pages: 384
- Goodreads Rating: 4.30
- Synopsis: On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home in the hills. Though the road is familiar, she misses a turning and soon becomes lost and disorientated. A car has skidded off the narrow road in front of her, its door left open, and she stops to help. There is no driver to be seen, so Vera assumes that the owner has gone to find help. But a cry calls her back: a toddler is strapped in the back seat.Vera takes the child and, driving on, she arrives at a place she knows well. Brockburn is a large, grand house in the wilds of Northumberland, now a little shabby and run down. It’s also where her father, Hector, grew up. Inside, there’s a party in full swing: music, Christmas lights and laughter. Outside, unbeknownst to the revelers, a woman lies dead in the snow.As the blizzard traps the group deep in the freezing Northumberland countryside, Brockburn begins to give up its secrets, and as Vera digs deeper into her investigation, she also begins to uncover her family’s complicated past.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Darkest-Evening-Vera-Stanhope-Novel/dp/1250204518/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674652500&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Darkest-Evening-Vera-Stanhope-Novel/dp/1250204518/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674652500&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 40. [The Heron's Cry](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/39/the-herons-cry)

Item ID: `39`

- Series: The Two Rivers Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/uitap7xgq2mo5ftyavkk.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2021
- Number of Pages: 400
- Goodreads Rating: 4.07
- Synopsis: 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 stabbed with 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, to find that she is a close friend of Jonathan, his husband.Then another body is found--killed in a similar way. Matthew soon finds himself treading carefully through the lies that fester at the heart of his community and a case that is dangerously close to home.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Herons-Cry-Detective-Matthew-Rivers/dp/1250204488/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674655035&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Herons-Cry-Detective-Matthew-Rivers/dp/1250204488/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674655035&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 41. [The Woman on the Island](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/25/the-woman-on-the-island)

Item ID: `25`

- Series: Vera Stanhope Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/siyln2qpbqx8oi3y3rho.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2022
- Number of Pages: 32
- Goodreads Rating: 3.73
- Synopsis: A rare day off from policing leads DCI Vera Stanhope across the tidal causeway to Holy Island, the lure of crab sandwiches there too hard to resist.While on the island, she is reminded of the day decades before when, as a teenager, she went with her father Hector on another day trip. The day she watched him meet with a mystery woman on the beach...Vera already knew then that Hector kept secrets, but this time the fledging investigator was determined to find the truth of why he was meeting the woman on the island, never realizing it would mean taking her first step onto a path to becoming a detective...
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Woman-Island-Stanhope-Short-Story-ebook/dp/B0B1Y53M37/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=34ZR4LF1QSVXI&keywords=the+woman+on+the+island+by+ann+cleeves&qid=1674653571&s=digital-text&sprefix=The+Woman+on+the+Island%09%2Cdigital-text%2C188&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Woman-Island-Stanhope-Short-Story-ebook/dp/B0B1Y53M37/ref=sr_1_1?crid=34ZR4LF1QSVXI&keywords=the+woman+on+the+island+by+ann+cleeves&qid=1674653571&s=digital-text&sprefix=The+Woman+on+the+Island%09%2Cdigital-text%2C188&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 42. [The Rising Tide](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/26/the-rising-tide)

Item ID: `26`

- Series: Vera Stanhope Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/vpjkucfqfstb8wprwqrc.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2022
- Number of Pages: 384
- Goodreads Rating: 4.44
- Synopsis: 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 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 before could have led to murder then, and now . . .But with the tide rising, secrets long-hidden are finding their way to the surface, and Vera and the team may find themselves in more danger than they could have believed possible . . .
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Rising-Tide-Vera-Stanhope-Novel/dp/1250204542/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674652500&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Rising-Tide-Vera-Stanhope-Novel/dp/1250204542/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674652500&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 43. [The Girls on the Shore](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/40/the-girls-on-the-shore)

Item ID: `40`

- Series: The Two Rivers Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/hg3e23hkulpeoocb8e44.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2022
- Number of Pages: 36
- Goodreads Rating: 3.40
- Synopsis: 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.
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Girls-Shore-Ann-Cleeves-ebook/dp/B09L6VQ1Y1/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=3M1R7XKXLPRPT&keywords=The+Girls+on+the+Shore&qid=1674655449&s=books&sprefix=the+girls+on+the+shore%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C178&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Girls-Shore-Ann-Cleeves-ebook/dp/B09L6VQ1Y1/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3M1R7XKXLPRPT&keywords=The+Girls+on+the+Shore&qid=1674655449&s=books&sprefix=the+girls+on+the+shore%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C178&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)

### 44. [The Raging Storm](https://listium.com/@BookEnthusiasts/80799/the-complete-list-of-ann-cleeves-books-in-order/41/the-raging-storm)

Item ID: `41`

- Series: The Two Rivers Books
- Image: ![Image](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/u92hgihcv85ljt56vazm.jpg)
- Year of Release: 2023
- Number of Pages: 336
- Goodreads Rating: -
- Synopsis: -
- Read?: false
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Raging-Storm-Detective-Matthew-Novel-ebook/dp/B0BQGJDHG5/ref=tmm\_kin\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674655520&sr=1-1](https://www.amazon.com/Raging-Storm-Detective-Matthew-Novel-ebook/dp/B0BQGJDHG5/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674655520&sr=1-1&tag=listium03-20)