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Burial of Ghosts
`My nightmares feature knives and blood. I don’t do falling down holes or being chased through deserted streets. And though I usually dream in black and white, the blood is very red, glossy, and it slides out from the rest of the scene. The worst thing is that when I wake, I realize it wasn’t a dream at all . . .’
Twenty-five-year-old Lizzie Bartholomew has had more than her fair share of troubles. Abandoned as a baby, she spent her childhood moving between foster homes. At one time, thieving and court appearances became almost a way of life. Now she is running away from her past . . .
For Lizzie, a holiday in Morocco seems to be the perfect escape. Especially when she finds herself on a bus sitting next to Philip, a fellow tourist who is also travelling to fulfil his dreams.
After a brief affair, Lizzie returns to England. In the days that follow, she is distracted by thoughts of her mysterious lover. Then suddenly she receives a letter from a firm of solicitors.
Philip Samson has died. In his will, he has left Lizzie a gift of £15,000. But there are conditions attached to this unexpected legacy. Conditions that will soon force Lizzie to confront terrifying ghosts from her own past . . .
Praise for Ann Cleeves
`Ann Cleeves is a gifted recruit to the traditional detective novel and on her current form will continue to command attention. At her best she is already exceptional’ Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers
`Cleeves again excels in her sense of place . . . A cleverly plotted psychological thriller’ The Times
`Excellent’ Spectator
`A strong, dark crime novel, distinguished by its intelligent, spiky characterization’ Andrew Taylor, Tangled Web
`Puts Ms Cleeves in the Rendell class’ Peterborough Evening Telegraph
`Perceptive, convincing and quietly compelling’ Marcel Berlins, The Times
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The Sleeping and the Dead
Detective Chief Inspector Peter Porteous came to the small town of Cranford to escape the frantic pace and pressure of urban police work. So he was not expecting one of the first cases in his new job to be a murder investigation. And a thirty-year-old one at that . . .
Following the recent dry weather, the nearby lake at Cranwell Village has yielded up a body with a stab wound in its back, an anchor tied round its waist.
With the help of Detective Sergeant Eddie Stout, Porteous begins a painstaking search through the town’s missing persons records - and identifies the victim as eighteen-year-old Michael Grey, who disappeared in 1972. But Michael is an enigmatic figure, and the more they research his life the more elusive it becomes.
Fifty miles away, in the seaside town of Millhaven, Hannah Morton is listening to a news report about the discovery of the corpse in her old home town. And, like the body, memories she had tried so hard to bury begin to surface. For Michael Grey was Hannah’s boyfriend, and she was with him only hours before he disappeared . . .
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The Crow Trap
At the isolated Baikie's Cottage on the North Pennines, three very different women come together to complete an environmental survey. Three women who, in some way or another, know the meaning of betrayal…
For team leader Rachael Lambert the project is the perfect opportunity to rebuild her confidence after a double-betrayal by her lover and boss, Peter Kemp. Botanist Anne Preece, on the other hand, sees it as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. And then there is Grace Fulwell, a strange, uncommunicative young woman with plenty of her own secrets to hide…
When Rachael arrives at the cottage, however, she is horrified to discover the body of her friend Bella Furness. Bella, it appears, has committed suicide - a verdict Rachael finds impossible to accept.
Only when the next death occurs does a fourth woman enter the picture - the unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope, who must piece together the truth from these women's tangled lives...
'Trauma, obsession and murder entwine in a suspenseful-packed crime story that puts Ms Cleeves in the Rendell class' Peterborough Evening Telegraph
'Cleeves again excels in her sense of place as she sets this cleverly plotted psychological thriller in an isolated cottage in Northumberland
More Praise for Ann Cleeves
'Ann Cleeves is a gifted recruit to the traditional detective novel and on her current form will continue to command attention. At her best she is already exceptional.' B.A. Pike, Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers
'A clever and well-crafted tale ... Highly recommended.' Glasgow Evening Times
'A thrill for the reader.' Newcastle Upon Tyne Journal
'Confirms her place in the premier league of British crime writers.' Hampstead and Highgate Express
'A classic British whodunnit.' Peterborough Evening News
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First British Edition Macmillan (1997) |
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The Baby Snatcher
See Review by
Andrew Taylor
- author of the highly acclaimed Roth & Lydmouth Series
When 15-year old Marilyn Howe turns up on Inspector Ramsay's doorstep he has little choice but to invite her in, for Marilyn is convinced that her mother has disappeared. But when Ramsay returns the young girl to her home, on the isolated coastal community known as the Headland, they find Mrs Howe safe and well.
Six months later, Ramsay has more or less forgotten the strange incident, busy as he is on the trail of a local child abductor. Until he receives news that Mrs Howe has disappeared once more. Then a body is washed up on the beach, and he soon gets drawn into the strange relationships of the families living on the lonely Headland.…
The Baby-Snatcher is the sixth in the increasingly popular, ingeniously plotted Inspector Ramsay traditional ‘whodunit’ series.
'As with most of Ann Cleeves' novels, the characters come live off the page and she delivers a convincing solution.' The Spectator (Sea Fever)
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The Healers
Farmer Emie Bowles is found lying on his kitchen floor - strangled. Not a pretty sight. Inspector Ramsay fears the case will not be simple. It isn't. Certainly not when there is a second strangulation. Two killings are more than a chilling coincidence. A third suspicious death provides a tenuous link between all three and leads Inspector Ramsay to the Alternative Therapy Clinic. Could one of the healers be a killer?
'The characters come live off the page and she delivers a convincing solution' The Spectator
'Perceptive, convincing and… compelling' Marcel Berlins, The Times
'Confirms her place in the premier league of British crime writers' Hampstead and Highgate Express (The Healers)
'Highly enjoyable' Harriet Waugh, The Spectator
'Watertight and exciting' Susan Hill, Good Housekeeping
About The Author
Ann Cleeves lived in a North Devon village as a child where her father was the school teacher. She dropped out of Sussex University and took a variety of temporary jobs - child care officer, Women's Refuge worker, and finally as the cook for a Bird Observatory on Fair Isle where she met her husband. They married in 1997 and she enrolled in a social work course at Liverpool University. After qualifying she worked as a probation officer for the Merseyside Probation Service. In 1983 she moved with her family to the Midlands and started to write. In 1987 she and her family moved to the North East and her response to the area and the people provided the inspiration and background for her Inspector Ramsay novels.
Ann Cleeves was Reader in Resident for Northern Arts last year. She has recently moved from Whitley Bay to Huddersfield with her ornithologist husband and their two daughters. She is best known for her Inspector Ramsay novels, set in the Northumberland she knows so well.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
Burial of Ghosts
(Macmillan,
2003)
Mar 03
The Sleeping and the Dead
(Macmillan,
2001)
Pan Pbk Jan 02
The Crow Trap
(Macmillan,
1999)
Pan Pbk Oct 01
The Baby Snatcher
(Macmillan,
1997)
Allison & Busby Pbk Oct 99
( Ramsay)
High Island Blues
(Macmillan,
1996)
( Palmer-Jones)
The Healers
(Macmillan,
1995)
Allison & Busby Pbk Feb 99
( Ramsay)
The Mill on the Shore
(
1994)
Sea Fever
(Macmillan,
1993)
Allison & Busby Pbk Feb 00
( Palmer-Jones)
Killjoy
(Macmillan,
1993)
Macmillan Apr 97
Allison & Busby Pbk 1998
( Ramsay)
Another Man's Poison
(Macmillan,
1992)
( Palmer-Jones)
A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy
(Macmillan,
1992)
Allison & Busby Pbk 1997
( Ramsay)
Murder in My Backyard
(Macmillan,
1991)
Allison & Busby Pbk Jul 99
( Ramsay)
A Lesson in Dying
(Century,
1990)
Allison & Busby Pbk May 99
( Ramsay)
A Prey to Murder
(Century,
1989)
( Palmer-Jones)
Murder in Paradise
(Century,
1988)
Come Death and High Water
(Century,
1987)
( Palmer-Jones)
A Bird In The Hand
(Century,
1986)
( Palmer-Jones)
The Crow Trapa
Burial of Ghosts
by Anne Cleeves
