Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves (born 1954) is a British 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 studied English at Sussex University but dropped out. She then took up various jobs including cook, auxiliary coastguard, probation officer, library outreach worker and child care officer. She lives in Whitley Bay. She has written a number of series including: Inspector Ramsay, George & Molly Palmer-Jones, Shetland Island, and Vera Stanhope. The Vera Stanhope novels have been dramatized as the TV detective series Vera and the Shetland Island novels as the series Shetland. http://www.anncleeves.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Cleeves