The Rising Tide بقلم Ann Cleeves ...
'One of Britain's best crime writers' – Daily Express
Shallow waters hide the deepest secrets. Vera Stanhope, star of ITV’s Vera, returns in The Rising Tide, the tenth entry in number one bestseller Ann Cleeves’s acclaimed series.
Fifty years ago, a group of teenagers spent a weekend on Holy Island, forging a bond that has lasted a lifetime. Now, they still return every five years to celebrate their friendship, and remember the friend they lost to the rising waters of the causeway at the first reunion.
Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends are hiding, and whether the events of many years before could have led to murder then, and now . . .
But with the tide rising, secrets long-hidden are finding their way to the surface, and Vera and the team may find themselves in more danger than they could have believed possible . . .
Ann Cleeves OBE (born 24 October 1954) is a British mystery crime writer. She wrote the Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez, and Matthew Venn series, all three of which have been adapted into TV shows. In 2006 she won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger for her novel Raven Black,[1] the first novel in the Jimmy Perez series.
Early life and career
Cleeves was born in Herefordshire and brought up in north Devon where she attended Barnstaple Grammar School;[2] 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.[3]
Television adaptations
Cleeves' work was first optioned for television after producer Elaine Collins discovered a copy of one of the Vera novels, The Crow Trap, while searching for holiday reading in an Oxfam shop in North London, where she lived. Collins was the books executive for ITV Studios, which was looking for a new female detective to fill its Sunday night drama slot.[4][5] Collins subsequently went on to buy the rights to Cleeves' Jimmy Perez novels for the BBC, which turned them into Shetland.
Personal life
She lives in Whitley Bay,[1] and is widowed with two daughters.[6]
Honours, awards, and media appearances
In 2006 she won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger for her novel Raven Black,[1] and in 2008 she was elected to the prestigious Detection Club. In 2014 Cleeves was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Sunderland.[7] 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).[8]
Cleeves was chosen as the 2017 recipient of the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers' Association for "sustained excellence" in crime fiction.[9] In February 2019 Ann Cleeves appeared on Desert Island Discs.[10] Cleeves was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to reading and libraries.[11][12]
In July 2022, Cleeves was awarded an honorary D.Litt. from Newcastle University for services to reading and libraries.[13]
On 15 September 2024 Cleeves' life was featured in an episode of the Radio 3 series Private Passions.[