a passionate champion for libraries and was a National Libraries Day Ambassador in 2016. Ann lives in North Tyneside near where the Vera books are set.
B Y A NN C LEEVES A Bird in the Hand Come Death and High Water Murder in Paradise A Prey to Murder A Lesson in Dying Murder in My Backyard A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy Another Man’s Poison Killjoy The Mill on the Shore Sea Fever The Healers High Island Blues The Baby-Snatcher The Sleeping and the Dead Burial of Ghosts The Vera Stanhope series The Crow Trap Telling Tales Hidden Depths Silent Voices The Glass Room Harbour Street The Moth Catcher The Seagull The Darkest Evening The Shetland series Raven Black White Nights Red Bones Blue Lightning Dead Water Thin Air Cold Earth Wild Fire The Two Rivers series The Long Call First published 2020 by Macmillan This electronic edition first published 2020 by Macmillan an imprint of Pan Macmillan The Smithson, 6 Briset Street, London EC1M 5NR Associated companies throughout the world www.panmacmillan.com ISBN 978-1-5098-8953-2 Copyright © Ann Cleeves 2020 Main image © Shutterstock Author photo © David Hirst The right of Ann Cleeves to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Lines from ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ from The Collected Poems by Robert Frost. Published by Vintage. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Limited © 2013 You may not copy, store, distribute, transmit, reproduce or otherwise make available this publication (or any part of it) in any form, or by any means (electronic, digital, optical, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the publisher. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damage. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Visit www.panmacmillan.com to read more about all our books and to buy them. You will also find features, author interviews and news of any author events, and you can sign up for e-newsletters so that you’re always first to hear about our new releases.
