Tag: Ann Cleeves

  • The Dying Light: Forthcoming Ann Cleeves

    With thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan for this preview. The Dying Light, the new Matthew Venn mystery, will be out in early October in Canada and the U.S. A couple of weeks ago Ann Cleeves, Shetland Noir’s patron, appeared at a fun crime fiction festival that’s on my bucket list. Cleeves was discussing her two…

  • Happy St. David’s Day!

    I must spend it packing; for those of you with reading time, I highly recommend Ann Cleeves’s Murder in My Backyard, which is part of her terrific Inspector Ramsay series. From her website: “No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry… but here she is, murdered in her own backyard…

  • Ann Cleeves: An Appreciation

    I’m interrupting my set of four posts on academic mysteries to reflect on how brilliant Ann Cleeves’s Vera novels are, in particular. No shade to her other series, which are engaging and innovative as well. This past fall I was due to go to Knowlton, Quebec to see Louise Penny interview Cleeves, at a public…