Ann Cleeves 1954-   Ann Cleeves has worked as probation officer, a cook at a bird observatory and as a coastguard. She is the creator of: 1. 'George and Molly Palmer-Jones', an amateur bird watcher and his wife. 2. 'Jimmy Perez', a Detective Inspector in the Scottish Shetland Islands. 3. 'Stephen Ramsey', a Detective Inspector in Northumberland. 4. 'Vera Stanhope', a Detective Inspector in East Yorkshire. Visit also the author's own site.

Titles and year of publication:
 

'George and Molly Palmer-Jones' Novels
1) A Bird in the Hand	1986
2) Come Death and High Water	1987
3) Murder in Paradise	1988
4) A Prey to Murder	1989
5) Sea Fever	1991
6) Another Man's Poison	1992
7) The Mill on the Shore	1994
8) High Island Blues	1996
'Jimmy Perez' Novels
1) Raven Black (Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award)	2006
2) White Nights	2008
3) Red Bones	2009
4) Blue Lightning	2010
5) Dead Water	2013
'Stephen Ramsey' Novels
1) A Lesson in Dying	1990
2) Murder in My Backyard	1991
3) A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy	1992
4) Killjoy	1993
5) The Healers	1995
6) The Baby Snatcher	1997
'Vera Stanhope' Novels
1) The Crow Trap	1999
2) Telling Tales	2005
3) Hidden Depths	2007
4) Silent Voices	2011
5) The Glass Room	2012
Other Novels
1) The Sleeping and the Dead	2001
2) Burial of Ghosts	2003