Ann Cleeves
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Qui a tué la jeune Abigail ? Vera mène l'enquête.
Cela fait dix ans maintenant que Jeanie Long a été accusée du meurtre de la jeune Abigail Mantel, 15 ans. Lasse de toujours crier son innocence, elle vient de se suicider.
Mais voilà que les habitants de la paisible bourgade d'Elvet, dans le nord de l'Angleterre, sont troublés d'apprendre qu'une nouvelle preuve a été exhumée, qui atteste de l'innocence de Jeanie.
Le meurtrier d'Abigail serait dans la nature...
Pour Emma Bennett, cette révélation ravive d'émouvants souvenirs de sa meilleure amie - et de cette effroyable journée d'hiver où elle avait découvert son corps gisant dans un fossé.
Au fur et à mesure des recherches menées par l'inspectrice Vera Stanhope, et tandis que les habitants sont ramenés à une époque qu'ils auraient préféré oublier, les tensions montent. Mais ont-ils peur de l'assassin... ou de leur propre passé ?
Alors que Vera Stanhope creuse dans l'histoire de cette bourgade, elle met au jour des secrets aussi effrayants que décisifs...
Première édition : Belfond, 2008
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Un corps couvert de fleurs : Vera débusquera-t-elle l'assassin ?
Il fait chaud ce jour-là, sur les côtes de Norhumberland. Revenue d'une virée en ville, Julie Armstrong n'aurait jamais cru faire pareille macabre découverte : son fils étranglé, étendu dans son bain... et le corps couvert de fleurs sauvages.
Ce meurtre "d'esthète" laisse l'inspectrice Vera Stanhope et son équipe sous le choc. Mais quand un second corps est découvert dans un décor similaire, Vera sait qu'elle doit faire vite pour débusquer le criminel.
Rares sont les indices susceptibles d'aiguiller Vera, mais la voilà intriguée par le groupe d'amis qui a découvert le second corps.
Qu'est-ce qui relie ces quatre hommes et cette femme ? Sont-ils si soudés qu'ils le prétendent ? Tandis que chacun est contraint de révéler ses petits secrets, des révélations surgissent peu à peu...
Et pendant ce temps, le tueur reste dans l'ombre, attendant l'occasion de reproduire son oeuvre d'art morbide...
Première édition : Belfond, 2008
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The Heron''s Cry is the second novel in the number one Sunday Times bestselling series featuring detective Matthew Venn, from the creator of Vera and Shetland , Ann Cleeves. 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. His daughter Eve is a glassblower, and the murder weapon is a shard of one of her 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 finds himself treading carefully through the lies that fester at the heart of his community and a case that is dangerously close to home . . . The Long Call and The Heron''s Cry are part of Ann Cleeves'' Two Rivers series and have been recently commissioned for ITV.
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B>The Long Call is the captivating first novel in a /b>b>brand new series /b>b>from Sunday Times bestseller a/b>b>nd creator of Vera and Shetland, /b>b>Ann Cleeves./b>In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family too.Now he's back, not just to mourn his father at a distance, but to take charge of his first major case in the Two Rivers region; a complex place not quite as idyllic as tourists suppose.A body has been found on the beach near to Matthew's new home: a man with the tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death.Finding the killer is Venn's only focus, and his team's investigation will take him straight back into the community he left behind, and the deadly secrets that lurk there.
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B>Wild Fire is the eighth, and final book, in Ann Cleeves' bestselling Shetland series - a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall as Jimmy Perez./b> Shetland: Welcoming. Wild. Remote. Drawn in by the reputation of the islands, a new English family move to the area, eager to give their autistic son a better life. But when a young nanny's body is found hanging in the barn of their home, rumours of her affair with the husband begin to spread like wild fire. With suspicion raining down on the family, DI Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate. For him it will mean returning to the islands of his on-off lover and boss Willow Reeves, who will run the case. Perez is already facing the most disturbing investigation of his career, when Willow drops a bombshell that will change his life forever. Is he ready for what is to come?
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Beginning with The Crow Trap, the Vera Stanhope series is the bestselling and critically acclaimed series of crime novels set in Northumberland, by award-winning author Ann Cleeves. They have been made into a hit detective drama on ITV1, starring Brenda Blethyn as Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope of the Northumbria Police Force. Ann has been awarded the Duncan Lawrie Dagger (CWA Gold Dagger) for Best Crime Novel for Raven Black , the first in the Shetland crime series, which has also been made into a TV series on BBC One. In 2012 Ann was inducted into the Crime Writer''s Association Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame.
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DCI Vera Stanhope returns in the ninth novel in No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Ann Cleeves'' enduringly popular series . Driving home during a swirling blizzard, Vera Stanhope''s only thought is to get there quickly. But with the snow driving down heavily, she becomes disorientated and loses her way. Ploughing on, she sees a car slewed off the road ahead of her. With the driver''s door open, Vera assumes the driver has sought shelter but when she inspects the car she is shocked to find a young toddler strapped in the back seat. Afraid they will freeze, Vera takes the child and drives on, arriving at Brockburn, a run-down stately home she immediately recognizes as the house her father Hector grew up in. Inside Brockburn a party is in full swing, with music and laughter to herald the coming Christmas. But outside in the snow, a young woman lies dead and Vera knows immediately she has a new case. Could she be the child''s mother, and if it is, what happened to her? A classic country house mystery with a contemporary twist, Ann Cleeves returns with a brilliant new Vera novel to savour.
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The Heron''s Cry is the second novel in the number one Sunday Times bestselling series featuring detective Matthew Venn, from the creator of Vera and Shetland , Ann Cleeves. 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. His daughter Eve is a glassblower, and the murder weapon is a shard of one of her 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 finds himself treading carefully through the lies that fester at the heart of his community and a case that is dangerously close to home . . . The Long Call and The Heron''s Cry are part of Ann Cleeves'' Two Rivers series and have been recently commissioned for ITV.
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Hidden Depths is the third book in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series - which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn, Vera . A hot summer on the Northumberland coast and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son strangled, laid out in a bath of water and covered with wild flowers. This stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera Stanhope intrigued. But then another body is discovered in a rock pool, the corpse again strewn with flowers. Vera must work quickly to find this killer who is making art out of death. As local residents are forced to share their deepest, darkest secrets, the killer watches, waits and plans to prepare another beautiful, watery grave . . . Enjoy more of Vera Stanhope's investigations with The Crow Trap, Telling Tales, Silent Voices, The Glass Room, Harbour Street, The Moth Catcher, and The Seagull .
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The Glass Room is the fifth book in Ann Cleeves'' Vera Stanhope series - which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn as Vera. Sometimes crime strikes too close to home . . . DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her neighbours keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation. But when one of them goes missing, her path leads her to more than a missing friend . . . Vera tracks the young woman down to the Writer''s House, a country retreat for aspiring authors. Things get complicated when a body is discovered and Vera''s neighbour 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. Vera must find a killer who has taken murder off the page and is making it real . . . Enjoy more of Vera Stanhope''s investigations with The Crow Trap , Telling Tales , Hidden Depths , Silent Voices, Harbour Street, The Moth Catcher, The Seagull and The Darkest Evening .
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The fifth Shetland novel A journalist working a story. Now his murder is a headline . . . When the body of journalist is found in a traditional Shetland boat, Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted in to head up the investigation. Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop, but his local knowledge is needed and he decides to help the inquiry. Originally a Shetlander, the journalist had left the islands years before to make a name for himself in London, leaving a scandal in his wake. He had few friends in Shetland, so why was he back? 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. One that must have been significant enough to kill him for . . . Dead Water is the fifth book in Ann Cleeves'' bestselling Shetland series - a major BBC One drama, starring Douglas Henshall.
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The fourth Shetland novel A remote island on lockdown. A killer on the loose . . . Shetland detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to Fair Isle to introduce his fiancee to his parents. With the autumn storms raging, the island is cut off from the rest of the world. Then a woman''s body is discovered at the renowned bird observatory, with feathers threaded through her hair. Perez has no support from the mainland and must investigate the old-fashioned way. He soon realizes that this is no crime of passion - but a murder of cold and calculated intention. There''s no way off the island until the storms abate - and so the killer is also trapped, just waiting for the opportunity to strike again. Blue Lightning is the fourth book in Ann Cleeves'' Shetland series, filmed as the major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall.
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Vera Stanhope, star of ITV''s Vera , returns in the tenth novel in number one bestseller Ann Cleeves'' acclaimed series. Fifty years ago, a group of teenagers spent a weekend on Holy Island, forging a bond that has lasted a lifetime. Now, they still return every five years to celebrate their friendship, and remember the friend they lost to the rising waters of the causeway at the first reunion. 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 . . .
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The Seagull is Ann Cleeves' searing eighth novel in the bestselling Vera Stanhope series, about corruption deep in the heart of a community, and about fragile, and fracturing, family relationships.Shrewd. Smart. Challenging. Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope is on the case.When prison inmate and former police officer John Brace says he's willing to give up information about a long-dead wheeler dealer in return for protection for his family, Vera knows that she has to look into his claims.But opening up this cold case strikes much closer to home than Vera anticipates as her investigation takes her back in time to The Seagull, a once decadent and now derelict nightclub where her deceased father and his friends used to congregate.As Vera's past collides dangerously with the present, she will have to confront her unwanted memories and face the possibility that her father was involved in what happened. The truth is about to come out but is Vera ready for what it will reveal?The Vera Stanhope series has been adapted as the smash-hit TV series, Vera, starring Brenda Blethyn.
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Introducing Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope Everyone has something to hide . . . Three very different women come together at an isolated cottage on the North Pennines to complete an environmental survey. Three women who each know the meaning of betrayal . . . Rachael, the team leader, is still reeling after a double betrayal by her lover and boss. Anne, a botanist, sees the survey as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. And then there is Grace, a strange, uncommunicative young woman, hiding plenty of her own secrets. Rachael is the first to arrive at the cottage, but when she gets there she is shocked to discover an apparent suicide. But then another death occurs, and a fourth woman enters the picture - the unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope, who must piece together the truth from these women''s tangled lives . . . The Crow Trap is the first book in Ann Cleeves'' Vera Stanhope series - which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn, Vera .
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The third novel in the Matthew Venn series from the Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller Ann Cleeves.
When Jem Rosco - sailor, adventurer and legend - blows in to the local pub, The Maiden''s Prayer, in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone are delighted.
The whole place has a strange, unreal quality: the village that time forgot. Backed by a worked-out quarry, with a shingle beach and a north-facing quay, there''s little to recommend it to tourists.
When Rosco disappears again, they think nothing of it; that''s the sort of man he is. Until the lifeboat is launched to a hoax call-out and his body is found in a dinghy, anchored off Scully Cove, a place with legends of its own.
This is an uncomfortable case for Venn. Greystone is a stronghold of the Barum Brethren and he came here as a child. Faith and superstition mix as another body is found in Scully, and Matthew finds his judgement clouded.
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A Biddista, hameau perdu des Shetland, pendant le solstice d'été. Un homme est retrouvé mort, pendu dans un cabanon de pêcheurs au bord de l'eau, un masque de clown dissimulant son visage. Jimmy Perez n'a pas assez de l'aide des flics d'Inverness pour élucider l'affaire, d'autant plus délicate que l'identité de la victime demeure inconnue. Entre Shetland et Yorkshire, les investigations piétinent. jusqu'à la découverte d'un nouveau corps. Cette fois, il s'agit de Roddy, l'enfant chéri de l'île, un jeune violoniste célèbre dans le monde entier. Quel lien pouvait bien unir les deux victimes ? Un meurtrier rôderait-il sur les falaises de Biddista ? Et surtout, quels secrets inavouables hantent les consciences des habitants ? En pleine saison des nuits blanches, durant ces jours où le soleil ne se couche jamais, Jimmy Perez devra déployer des trésors de sagacité pour briser le silence qui semble unir la petite communauté de Biddista, avant que le meurtrier ne frappe encore une fois
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Murder in My Backyard is the second mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series. 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. 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 . . .
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Too Good To Be True is a gripping Quick Read from Ann Cleeves, featuring Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez from the bestselling Shetland series.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 . . .
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Telling Tales is the second book in Ann Cleeves'' Vera Stanhope series - which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn, Vera . Ten years after Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail Mantel, disturbing new evidence proving her innocence emerges in the East Yorkshire village of Elvet. Abigail''s killer is still at large. For Emma Bennett, the revelation brings back haunting memories of her vibrant best friend - and of the fearful winter''s day when she had discovered her body lying cold in a ditch. Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope makes fresh inquiries, and the villagers are hauled back to a time they would rather forget. Tensions begin to mount, but are people afraid of the killer, or of their own guilty pasts? Enjoy more of Vera Stanhope''s investigations with The Crow Trap , Hidden Depths , Silent Voices, The Glass Room, Harbour Street, The Moth Catcher, and The Seagull.
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A DAY IN THE DEATH OF DOROTHEA CASSIDY - INSPECTOR RAMSAY
Ann Cleeves
- Macmillan
- 12 Juin 2018
- 9781509856244
A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy is the third novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series. For Dorothea Cassidy Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the one day she could call her own, 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? It is not until a second body is discovered that Ramsay starts to understand how Dorothea lived - and why she died. With the carnival festivities in full swing and dusk falling in Otterbridge, Ramsay''s murder investigation reaches its chilling climax . . . ''Nobody does unsettling undercurrents better than Ann Cleeves'' - Val McDermid, author of The Mermaids Singing
