Long before she became a crime writer, Ann Cleeves spent time working for the probation services in Merseyside. It was the 1980s, the council estates were awash with heroin and most of the people ...

Vera author Ann Cleeves says she is "thrilled" that the "friendliest crime fiction festival" will return to Whitley Bay for a fourth year in a row.

Bay Tales, Whitley Bay's annual crime fiction festival, returns to Playhouse Whitley Bay on Saturday, March 1, with festivalgoers expected from all over the country ...

Cleeves just published the third Matthew Venn book, “The Raging Storm.” As the story starts out some residents of Greystone, a fictional North Devon fishing village, are hunkered down at the ...

Authors Ann Cleeves, Trevor Wood, Brian McGilloway and more have been confirmed for Whitley Bay’s one-day crime-writing festival Bay Tales, taking place on 4th March 2023 at Whitley Bay Playhouse.

Crime writer Ann Cleeves has said the laptop she lost during a heavy snowstorm in Shetland has been found. It contained the draft of half her next novel, though she had backed up a copy. The ...

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Ann Cleeves first set about writing a novel when she was living on Hilbury, a tiny island off the west coast of England where her late husband Tim, an ornithologist, was working for the Royal ...

Long before she became a crime writer, Ann Cleeves spent time working for the probation services in Merseyside. It was the 1980s, the council estates were awash with heroin and most of the people ...