Ann is also a passionate champion for libraries and was a National Libraries Day Ambassador in 2016. She is a member of ‘Murder Squad’, working with other British northern writers to promote crime fiction.

Ann worked as a probation officer, bird observatory cook, and auxiliary coastguard before she started writing. The TV series and the books they are based on have become international sensations, capturing the minds of millions worldwide. She is the creator of popular detectives Vera Stanhope and Jimmy Perez who can now be found on television in ITV’s Vera and BBC One’s Shetland. Finding the killer is Venn’s only focus, and his team’s investigation will take him straight back into the community he left behind, and the deadly secrets that lurk there.Ībout the Author: Ann Cleeves is the author of over thirty critically acclaimed novels, and in 2017 was awarded the highest accolade in crime writing, the CWA Diamond Dagger. A body has been found on the beach near to Matthew's new home: a man with the tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death. Now he's back, not just to mourn his father at a distance, but to take charge of his first major case in the Two Rivers region a complex place not quite as idyllic as tourists suppose. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family too. In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. The Long Call is the No.1 bestselling first novel in the Two Rivers series from Sunday Times bestseller and creator of Vera and Shetland, Ann Cleeves. Hand Signed by Ann Cleeves to the Publishers Official Bookplate Aircraft & Spacecraft: General Interest.Ships, Boats & Waterways: General Interest.Road & Motor Vehicles: General Interest.Fishing, Field Sports & Outdoor Activities.Sports Studies & PE: Textbooks & Study Guides.Literary Studies: Textbooks & Study Guides.Anthologies, Essays, Letters & Miscellaneous.

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