Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves (* 1954 in the county of Herefordshire , Region West Midlands , England ) is a popular crime writer whose novels have been translated into more than 20 languages. In addition to Great Britain , she became particularly well known in Scandinavia and Germany .

Life

Cleeves grew up in the rural west of England , Herefordshire and North Devon . Her father was a primary school teacher. After canceling her university education she practiced temporarily various jobs as a teacher in the child care , head of a women's shelter , assistant to the Coast Guard or cook on a bird observatory from. After that, Cleeves continued her university training as a probation officer .

In his early twenties, Cleves worked for two years as a cook at the ornithological station on Fair Isle , part of the Scottish Shetland Islands . There she met her future husband Tim, an ornithologist . Shortly after their marriage, he was appointed overseer of the Hilbre Island nature reserve , in the north-western border area between England and Wales . This is where Cleeves' first series of novels about the naturalist George Palmer-Jones came about , which was not published in German .

Ann and Tim Cleeves live in West Yorkshire ; they have two daughters.

Works

George & Molly Palmer-Jones series

• 1986 A Bird in the Hand
• 1987 Come Death and High Water
• 1988 Murder in Paradise
• 1989 A Prey to Murder
• 1991 Sea Fever
• 1992 Another Man's Poison
• 1994 The Mill on the Shore
• 1996 High Island Blues

Inspector Stephen Ramsay series

• 1990 A Lesson in Dying
• 1991 Murder in My Backyard
• 1992 A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy
• 1993 Killjoy
• 1995 The Healers
• 1997 The Baby Snatcher

Vera Stanhope series

• 1999 The Crow Trap
• 2005 Telling Tales (German guilty of sacrifice . Rowohlt TB , Reinbek 2011, ISBN 978-3-499-25362-1 )
• 2007 Hidden Depths ( Ger . Totenblüte . Rowohlt TB, Reinbek 2010, ISBN 978-3-499-25315-7 )
• 2011 Silent Voices (German soul death Rowohlt TB, Reinbek 2011, ISBN 978-3-499-25614-1 )
• 2012 The Glass Room (Ger. The last word . Rowohlt TB, Reinbek 2012, ISBN 978-3-499-25905-0 )
• 2014 Harbor Street (Ger. A dark spot . Rowohlt TB, Reinbek 2014, ISBN 978-3-499-26942-4 )
• 2015 The Moth Catcher (German: The Night of the Black Moths . Rowohlt TB, Reinbek 2016, ISBN 978-3-499-27238-7 )
• 2017 The Seagull (Ger. Die other Tote . Rowohlt TB, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-499-27598-2 )

First Shetland Quartet

• 2006 Raven Black (Ger. The Night of the Ravens . Rowohlt TB, Reinbek 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-24477-3 )
• 2008 White Nights (Ger. The longest day . Rowohlt TB, Reinbek 2008, ISBN 978-3-499-24478-0 )
• 2009 Red Bones (Ger. In the cold light of spring . Rowohlt TB, Reinbek 2009, ISBN 978-3-8052-0876-5 )
• 2010 Blue Lightning (German storm warning . Rowohlt TB, Reinbek 2010, ISBN 978-3-8052-0880-2 )

Second Shetland Quartet

• 2013 Dead Water (German Dead Water . Rowohlt TB, Reinbek 2014, ISBN 978-3-499-26717-8 )
• 2014 Thin Air (Ger. The ghost girl . Rowohlt TB, Reinbek 2015, ISBN 978-3-499-27055-0 )
• 2016 Cold Earth (German: The Dead in a Red Dress . Rowohlt TB, Reinbek 2018, ISBN 978-3-499-27378-0 )
• 2018 Wild Fire

Individual works

• 2001 The Sleeping and the Dead
• 2003 Burial of Ghosts

Movie

• 2011: The Vera Stanhope series is produced by the British ITV studios and will be broadcast under the title Vera from May 2011. Brenda Blethyn plays the title role .
• 2013: Filming and broadcast of the novel Red Bones as a TV series by the BBC under the title Shetlands . Leading role: Douglas Henshall .
• 2014: The broadcast of further episodes based on the novels Raven Black , Dead Water and Blue Lightning is planned for 2014.
• 2019: Murder on Shetland - The Night of the Ravens (film adaptation of Raven Black) on German ARD television.

Awards

• 2006 Gold Dagger for Raven Black (Eng. The Night of the Ravens ) of the British Crime Writers' Association (CWA)

See also

• Shetland murder
• Vera - A very special case
• List of crime writers
• List of English writers

Web links

• Literature by and about Ann Cleeves in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of Ann Cleeves (English)

Notes / Notes

1. ↑ cf. Biography of Ann Cleeves (English)
2. ↑ In chronological listings, the English-language original edition published by Fawcett Gold Medal , New York, October 1991 is sometimes overlooked. The hardcover version by Macmillan, London, which only appeared in 1993 (e.g. in the English Wikipedia ) is then listed as the original edition .
3. ↑ cf. IMDb (English)
4. ↑ cf. IMDb, 1st season and IMDb, 2nd season (English)
5. ↑ cf. Announcement on digitalspy.co.uk (English)