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Ann Cleeves
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 236 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 2007–2029, suosituimpiin kuuluu Kiven varjo. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
236 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 2007–2029.
Vera Stanhope -sarjan uusimman kirjan tapahtumat sijoittuvat yhden kadun varrelle merenrantakylään. Hiljaisella Satamakadulla on vain muutama rakennus, joista yksi on naisten turvatalo ”Haven”. Talon pitkäaikainen työntekijä, hyväsydäminen Margaret Krukowski puukotetaan Newcastlen metrossa. Veran työpari Joe Ashworth on samassa metrossa teini-ikäisen Jessie-tyttärensä kanssa, mutta ei silti ehdi ajoissa, sillä ennätysmäisen sakea lumipyry peittää rikoksen jäljet. Pian myös toinen metromatkustaja – silminnäkijä? – löytyy kuolleena. Joe on syystäkin huolesta sekaisin, kun eräänä iltana Jessie ei vastaa puhelimeen… Vera Stanhopen pettämätöntä vainua ja ketään kumartelematonta asennetta tarvitaan enemmän kuin koskaan. Satamakatu on neljäs suomennettu Vera Stanhope -romaani ja monien arvioiden mukaan sarjan tähänastisista osista paras. Uutuusromaanissa joulutunnelma luo erityisen tehokkaan kontrastin pelon ilmapiirille. Vera-romaaneihin perustuvan tv-sarjan kaksi ensimmäistä tuotantokautta nähtiin Suomessa alkuvuodesta 2013. Sarja on kotimaassaan yltänyt jo 5. tuotantokauteensa. 4. tuotantokauden avausjakso perustui Satamakatu-romaaniin.
Another Man’s Poison is the fifth mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series. Molly Palmer-Jones arrives at her aunt Ursula’s house one morning, only to find her body slumped lifeless on the sofa . . . Ursula Ottway’s beautiful cottage is wanted by her landlord, politician Marcus Grenville, so he can convert it into a holiday residence. So when Ursula discovers that the illegal use of poisoned bait on Grenville’s land has killed not only a rare bird of prey but her two beloved cats, she storms to his house and threatens revenge. Shocked and saddened to find Ursula’s body the morning after this conflict, Molly and her husband George decide to piece together a picture of Ursula’s last days. And it soon becomes clear that, for many people on the estate, hers was a very convenient death. The Palmer-Joneses embark on a murder investigation but even their professional expertise doesn’t prepare them for what is to follow. A lifetime’s worth of secrets must surface before a killer can finally be brought to justice . . .
High Island Blues is the eighth and final mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series. Swarms of migrating birds fall from the sky seeking shelter as the spring storms begin, but the birders are distracted by a far more shocking sight: Mick Brownscombe’s dead body . . . Old college friends Rob, Oliver and Mick reunite on a bird watching tour to America. It is the first time in twenty years the three have been together – since the fateful holiday to America during which they met the enigmatic Laurie . . . The tour party is hoping for spectacular sights at High Island on the Upper Texas coast but, as the rain pours down and the birds descend, Mick is discovered dead. Back in Britain, Private Investigators George and Molly Palmer-Jones are working on a minor fraud case with name of Brownscombe Associates attached. So when George receives a desperate transatlantic call from his friend Rob, he is on the first plane to Texas. His investigations make little progress – until the second body is found . . .'Nobody does unsettling undercurrents better than Ann Cleeves' – Val McDermid, author of the Karen Pirie series
The Baby-Snatcher is the sixth and final mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series. Marilyn Howe’s and her mother Kathleen are an inseparable duo, until one night Kathleen doesn’t come home . . . Fifteen year old Marilyn turns up alone and frightened on Inspector Ramsay’s doorstep so he takes the young girl home to the isolated coastal community known as the Headland. And in the Howes’ dark and cluttered kitchen they find Kathleen safe and apparently well, though acting rather mysteriously. Six months later, Ramsay has more or less forgotten the strange incident, busy as he is on the trail of a local child abductor. Until he receives news that Mrs Howe has disappeared once more. And for the second time he is drawn into the strange relationships of the families living on the lonely Headland. Then a woman’s body is washed up on the beach . . .
Sea Fever is the sixth mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series. A rare and unrecorded sea bird captures all the birders attention whilst right under their noses the most fanatical birder of them all disappears . . . Later, Greg Franks’ corpse, the head bludgeoned, is found floating in the sea. Had it not been for Greg Franks, amateur detective George Palmer-Jones would not have been on the bird watching trip in Cornwall to the first place. He had been hired by Greg Franks’ anxious parents to try and persuade their errant son to return home. George would have turned the case down flat but the offer of a free weekend’s bird watching was too tempting to resist. Now, he must unhappily shoulder the burden of finding why the young man had been murdered. Who hated Franks enough to kill him? Almost everyone, it seems . . .
A Lesson in Dying is the first mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series. Who hung the headmaster in the playground on the night of the school Halloween Party? Almost everyone in Heppleburn either hated or feared the viper-tongued Harold Medburn. Inspector Ramsay is convinced it was the headmaster’s enigmatic wife but Jack Robson, school governor and caretaker, is determined to prove her innocence. With the help of his restless daughter Patty, Jack digs into the secrets of Heppleburn, and uncovers a cesspit of lies, adultery, blackmail and madness . . . Continue the classic whodunit series with Murder in My Backyard.
Killjoy is the fourth mystery novel in the Inspector Ramsay series by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series. The youth theatre cast are in their places but Gus Lynch’s female lead is missing, that is, until she’s found in the boot of his car . . . Detective Inspector Stephen Ramsay and Sergeant Gordon Hunter are assigned to head the murder enquiry, meanwhile violence is escalating on the Starling Farm Estate as police battle to contain the latest outbreak of joyriding. Is the death of Gabriella connected to the events at Starling Farm? When another death occurs, investigations suggest a possible link, and Ramsay realizes what could have provoked someone to kill . . . and kill again.
The Mill on the Shore is the seventh mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series. Meg Morrissey refuses to believe that her husband James committed suicide. James was in high spirits because he’d finally completed his long awaited autobiography. He didn’t leave a suicide note. But even more suspiciously the record of his life’s environmental achievement, his magnum opus, has gone missing. Troubled, Meg calls in amateur sleuths George and Molly Palmer-Jones to investigate. They soon uncover that life in the Morrissey family is not as idyllic as it seems – relations with ex-wife Cathy are not as friendly as Meg makes out and James appears to have fallen for another women. But the disappearance of his autobiography is most puzzling of all, did he uncover a secret so damaging someone was prepared to kill for it? George and Molly must try to fit together the missing pieces of information to reveal who could have wanted James dead . . .
Ann Cleeves returns to her critically acclaimed Shetland Island series, now a BBC television show available on streaming. Dead Water is the next stunning mystery featuring Inspector Jimmy Perez, who readers will remember from Raven Black, White Nights, Red Bones, and Blue Lightning. When the body of a journalist is found, Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted from outside to head up the investigation. Inspector Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop, but his local knowledge is needed in this case, and he decides to help Willow. The dead journalist had left the islands years before to pursue his writing career. In his wake, he left a scandal involving a young girl. 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. In Dead Water, a triumphant continuation to her Shetland series, Ann Cleeves cements her place as one of Britain's most successful crime writers.
The Sleeping and the Dead is a tense psychological crime thriller from CWA Gold Dagger award-winning writer, Ann Cleeves. Detective Peter Porteous is called to Cranwell Lake where the body of a teenager has been discovered. After trawling through the missing persons files, he deduces that the corpse is Michael Grey, an enigmatic and secretive young man who was reported missing by his foster parents in 1972. For country prison officer Hannah Morton it is the shock of her life. Michael had been her boyfriend, and she had been with him the night he disappeared. The news report that a body has been found brings back dreaded and long buried memories from her past . . .
Yksinhuoltaja Julie Armstrong palaa illalla kotiin ja löytää 16-vuotiaan Luke-poikansa murhattuna kylpyammeessa, ympärillään kelluvia kukkien terälehtiä. Pian majakan luota kalliolammikosta löytyy uusi ruumis, jälleen rituaalimaisesti kukilla koristeltuna. Joten kun Julien tytär katoaa, koko kylä pelkää pahinta. Komisario Vera Stanhope joutuu painamaan omat murheensa syrjään - ja ottaa murhatutkinnan haltuunsa armottoman rautaisella mutta sympaattisella tavallaan.
Blue Lightning is the fourth in a stellar suspense series from Ann Cleeves set on the Shetland Islands, the basis for the hit BBC show Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall. Inspector Jimmy Perez takes his fianc home to Fair Isle, the tiny island he comes from, to meet his parents. The island is a magnet for bird watchers, who congregate at the local inn and lighthouse. When a local married celebrity, who had an eye for the lads, is murdered, Perez discovers that the suspects are very close to him indeed. With a sensational ending destined to create much buzz in the mystery world, Blue Lightning will thrill suspense fans everywhere.
RØDT STØV er 3. bind i Ann Cleeves' populære Shetlandskvartet. En ø dækket af tåge. Et lille lukket samfund med skæbnesvangre hemmeligheder. Alle indbyggerne på Shetlandsøen Whalsay synes, det er spændende, da en ung arkæolog finder et skelet under en udgravning. Stedet er omgærdet af en række gamle myter og historier om både offerplads og handelssted, men ingen tør udelukke, at fundet er af nyere dato. Kort efter bliver Sally Wilson, en ældre dame, skudt. Det kan være en tragisk vådeskudsulykke, men vicekriminalkommissær Jimmy Perez tilkaldes for at efterforske sagen. Det barske landskab og havet skaber ubarmhjertige mennesker, og Jimmy Perez bliver under efterforskningen hurtigt i tvivl om, hvorvidt der virkelig var tale om en ulykke." RØDT STØV er en krimi for feinschmeckere, der sætter pris på et roligt tempo og et spindelvævsagtigt udtænkt plot. Og for naturelskere, for Cleeves skildring af disse forblæste øer og det lunefulde vejrlig nærmer sig sine steder poetiske højder." - Weekend Avisen
Vicekriminalkommissær Jimmy Perez rejser hjem til sin fødeø, Fair Isle, for at præsentere sin forlovede, Fran, for sine forældre. Efterårsstormen raser, og Fair Isle er isoleret. Øboerne føler sig fanget, og spændingerne vokser. Nok til at drive nogen til mord… Besøget udvikler sig til en efterforskning, da en kvinde findes myrdet i det anerkendte fugleobservatorium. Ingen kan forlade øen, før stormen lægger sig, og Jimmy Perez skal arbejde hurtigt. Der er en morder på øen, der måske vil slå til igen. Pressen skriver:»Krimien er spændende og truende og fuld af barsk natur, som ville kunne gøre enhver vanvittig. Jeg læste desuden en del om fugle under læsningen, og det virker, som om Cleeves har vendt hver sten, hun beskriver. Som at være der selv.« – Femina, Julia Lahme»Ann Cleeves har i alle fire bøger formået at gøre de barske øer og deres beboere levende, men Fair Isle-historien får ekstra farve af den fuglekiggerbesættelse, man genkender fra det virkelige liv. Heldigvis uden mord altså.«****– Berlingske, Bente Cornelius