DI Matthew Venn peels back layer upon layer to discover the dark secrets one family is keeping i...

RECENTLY spent a long weekend in Harrogate and, let me tell you, every day was murder. Every. Single. Day. And that’s before we even get on to the kidnappings, robberies and blackmail. Because, onc…

The Two Rivers  series continues with a murdered girl Lottie on holiday and her friend Hannah missing.  The head of the team in Matthew, and his husband, Jonathon runs an art centre.   There’s Jen who is a single parent of two teens.  There’s Ross who is a favorite of Matthew’s boss, and is bucking to […]

The Two Rivers  series continues with a murdered girl Lottie on holiday and her friend Hannah missing.  The head of the team in Matthew, and his husband, Jonathon runs an art centre.   There's Jen who is a single parent of two teens.  There's Ross who is a favorite of Matthew's boss, and is bucking to move up, but needs more skills; he thinks he's better than he is. 

September. Already. Wow. Least said, soonest mended as they say. I’m not really sure what is happening to time, but it sure don’t flow like it used to. Maybe I’m just getting older. Maybe I’ve just been really busy, but whatever the case, just wow. It’s been a week. A rainy one on occasion, so I’ve done nothing exciting. My car needs an expensive(ish) repair, so there is that, but aside from that, it has just been me and my books. And too many biscuits but we won’t dwell on that …

Having read all of the books in Ann Cleeves’ Shetland series, I decided to try a different series by the same author. The Long Call is the first book of the Two Rivers series. This series is …

The eleventh DCI Vera Stanhope novel, The Dark Wives is reliably twisty and knotty. Vera's team is still reeling from the death of their col...

British crime writer Ann Cleeves, the creator of detective Vera and investigator Jimmy Perez, told ERR’s Ringvaade that she is highly curious and often listens to other people’s conversations in restaurants and on public transport. “I’m just starting a new Jimmy Perez story. I’m quite excited to …

For Lizzie Bartholomew, a holiday in Morocco will change life forever. But not in the way she had...

Why is everyone afraid of Gabriella Paston? Is it because she's too beautiful, too talented, too ...

No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry . . . but here she is, murdered in h...

For Dorothea Cassidy Thursdays were special. But one Thursday in June was to be more special than...

The first crime novel featuring Inspector Ramsay, whose reputation hangs in the balance as he inv...

Kinness was often described as a Paradise of beautiful beaches and bountiful birdlife. But it was...

The members of the executive committee had gathered for a typical weekend of amiable wrangling an...

The first mystery novel in the Palmer-Jones series by Ann Cleeves, winner of the 2017 CWA Diamond...

The Killing Stones marks the eagerly awaited return of Ann Cleeves' beloved detectives from the S...

In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main...