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Better Off Dead by Sean Watkin

By DeathBecomesHer

15 January, 2026

It was April of last year when we first met new author Sean Watkin and his creation, the tortured Merseyside Police DCI, Win de Silva. A whirlwind few months later, Black Water Rising was shortlisted for the Val McDermid Debut Award and the author was…

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Black Water Rising by Sean Watkin

By DeathBecomesHer

15 April, 2025

It has been a popular crime fiction setting for years, thanks to the likes of Luca Veste and Kevin Sampson, and Liverpool has seen something of a renaissance lately, helped by The Responder and This City is Ours on the BBC. Time to add another…

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The origins of Vera Stanhope with Ann Cleeves

By crimefictionlover

20 August, 2024

Although the Shetland series has concluded in print at least, English author Ann Cleeves is still going strong with her Vera Stanhope books, and her new series featuring Matthew Venn. On 29 August 2024, the 11th book in the Vera series will land on the…

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Exclusive: Ann Cleeves reads from The Raging Storm

By crimefictionlover

31 August, 2023

Today we have a special guest on the site. The English author Ann Cleeves, author of the world famous Shetland and Vera novels, joins us with a reading from her latest book. The Raging Storm has just been released and it’s the third novel in…

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The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves

By DeathBecomesHer

30 August, 2023

North Devon tourist board must have been rubbing their hands with glee when Ann Cleeves announced that her new series of books featuring DI Matthew Venn was to be set in their neck of the woods – after all, look what the Vera and Shetland…

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On the Radar: Lies and crime fiction

By crimefictionlover

18 August, 2023

The title and themes of Linwood Barclay’s latest novel have got us thinking. Is making up fiction the same as lying? Are crime authors really mendacious malingerers? Well, we know they aren’t but The Lie Maker looks deliciously intriguing… in a deceptive kind of way….

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The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves

By DeathBecomesHer

30 March, 2023

The ending of her popular Shetland series saw Ann Cleeves turning to a new character, DI Matthew Venn, a gay man based in North Devon. But although readers said a sad farewell to Jimmy Perez in Wild Fire, there’s still one familiar face that just…

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Interview: Ann Cleeves

By DeathBecomesHer

20 March, 2023

Ann Cleeves is the creator of Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez and Matthew Venn and all three crime fiction series have been turned into TV productions – with Shetland claiming an runaway win in the CFL Awards Best Crime Drama category in 2022. In total, the…

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Better Off Dead by Sean Watkin

Black Water Rising by Sean Watkin

The origins of Vera Stanhope with Ann Cleeves

Exclusive: Ann Cleeves reads from The Raging Storm

The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves

On the Radar: Lies and crime fiction

The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves

Interview: Ann Cleeves

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