The Killing Stones by Ann cleeves

September 30, 2025

I’m a fan of Ann Cleeves’ Vera, and I like her Two Rivers series, but Jimmy Perez and her Shetland series are the books that draw me. Now, after several years, he’s back in a Detective Jimmy Perez novel. The compassionate, empathetic police officer...

“The Lonely Man” by Ann Cleeves

September 19, 2025

I’m getting ready to read Ann Cleeves’ new book, The Killing Stones, due out at the end of the month. It’s a Jimmy Perez book, the lead detective in Cleeves’ Shetland series. So, for me, it was perfect timing to read her short story, “The...

A Lesson in Dying by Ann Cleeves

March 24, 2025

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves gave readers the Inspector Ramsay series. Despite 1990 publication in the United Kingdom, the first book in the series, A Lesson in Dying, is only now available in the U.S. It’s a village mystery, with Ramsay only on the...

The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves

August 27, 2024

I reminded you earlier, and I’ll say it again, if you haven’t yet read Ann Cleeves’ The Rising Tide, you might want to pick it up before reading The Dark Wives. This eleventh in the series is a major spoiler for the previous one. In fact, there is a...

The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves

September 05, 2023

Bundle up and stay warm as you read the third Detective Matthew Venn novel by Ann Cleeves. The Raging Storm takes readers to Greystone in Devon, a storm-tossed coastal community where townspeople volunteer to work on lifeboats to save struggling sailors. This time,...