The Crow Trap is the first novel in Ann Cleeves’s crime fiction series, following unconventional detective inspector Vera Stanhope. Her writing abilities have been proven repeatedly since her first book, A Bird in the Hand, which was published in 1986. started with two stunning standalone mysteries, The Sleeping and the Dead and Burial of Ghosts: now readers have the chance to discover Ann's very first detective series, featuring George Palmer-Jones, an elderly birdwatcher - helped by his wife, Molly. When Jem Rosco - sailor, adventurer and local legend - blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity in their midst. My Shetland - two prize-winning short films chosen by Ann Cleeves to show readers of her Shetland Quartet what the islands look like to the people who live there.

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. Perez is already facing the most disturbing investigation of his career, when Willow drops a bombshell that will change his life forever. As the snow falls thickly on Newcastle, the shouts and laughter of Christmas revellers break the muffled silence. Ann: ‘The new series features Inspector Detective Matthew Venn but I hope it will be more of an ensemble piece so we find out a little bit more about his colleagues, Jen Rafferty, who’s a scouser who has escaped an abusive marriage and moved down to North Devon, and very much local boy Ross May. To answer a question as vital as the number of coffee cups consumed while reading, there are exactly 9 books in the Shetland Island series.It’s arty, you have young kids who are from public school who go there to celebrate their exams with surfing and frolicking on the beach and it’s the interaction between these different communities which specially interests me. 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. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter, a young ecologist, to look after the place while they’re away.

Series 8 of Shetland, the gripping tv crime drama which grew out of Ann Cleeves' award-winning detective novels, has come to its thrilling conclusion. When Rachael arrives at the cottage, however, she is horrified to discover the body of her friend Bella Furness. When a local celebrity is murdered, Inspector Jimmy Perez will uncover all manner of sordid secrets in the investigation. At Books2Door, we believe that reading is a fundamental skill that every child should have to help improve their vocabulary, grammar, and critical thinking skills. But murdered she unquestionably was; and from the outset Inspector Stephen Ramsay is hard put to figure out why.It 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.

Another strangling the even more puzzling murder of quiet housewife Val McDougal compounds the confusion, leading Ramsay to the local center for alternative healing, where both victims were well known.Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter Jessie are swept along in the jostling crowd onto the Metro. In the middle of rehearsals for her first big show at the arts center, eighteen-year-old Gabriella is murdered. Brace was convicted of corruption and involvement in the death of a gamekeeper – and Vera played a part in his downfall. 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. Her interest in the ghost had seemed unhealthy – obsessive, even – to her friends: an indication of a troubled mind.