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Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves created the Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez and Matthew Venn detective series. Her books inspired the television series Vera, Shetland and The Long Call, and she received the CWA Diamond Dagger.

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Mystery7 October 2027 · UK

The Final Vera

Ann Cleeves

Vera’s final case returns the detective to a community shaped by its criminal past, bringing Cleeves’s long-running series to a close.

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