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Ann Cleeves (born 1954) is an English crime-writer. In 2006 she won the inaugural Duncan Lawrie Dagger, the richest crime-writing prize in the world, for her novel Raven Black. Cleeves was born in Herefordshire and brought up in north Devon; she studied English at the University of Sussex but dropped out and then took up various jobs including cook at the Fair Isle bird observatory, auxiliary coastguard, probation officer, library outreach worker and child care officer. She lives in Whitley Bay, and is widowed with two daughters.

The Vera Stanhope novels have been dramatised as the TV detective series Vera and the Jimmy Perez novels as the series Shetland.

In 2014 Cleeves was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Sunderland. In 2015, Cleeves was the Programming Chair for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival & the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. In 2015, she was shortlisted for the Dagger in the Library UK Crime Writers' Association award for an author's body of work in British libraries (UK) In February 2019 Ann Cleeves appeared on Desert Island Discs.

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Skjulte dybder

En morder holder øje … et samfund venter … På en varm sommeraften ved Northumberlands kyst kommer Julie Armstrong sent hjem og finder sin søn kvalt og placeret i et badekar fyldt med vand og vilde blomster. Det smukt arrangerede åsted fascinerer vicepolitikommissær Vera Stanhope. Men et nyt lig dukker hurtigt op – igen i vand og dækket af blomster. Vera skal arbejde hurtigt for at finde frem til morderen inden han atter bruger døden som en del af sin kunst. Mens de lokale er tvunget til at dele deres dybeste, mørkeste hemmeligheder, holder morderen øje, venter og planlægger en ny våd og smuk grav. "Skjulte dybder" er en del af Ann Cleeves’ kriminalserie om Vera Stanhope. Serien danner baggrund for DRs populære tv-serie VERA. Ann Cleeves (f. 1954) er også forfatteren bag Shetland-serien som omfatter bl.a. bøgerne "Sort som ravnen", "Dødvande" og "Blå luft". Hun modtog i 2006 Storbritanniens største krimipris ”The Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award” for "Sort som ravnen"
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