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      By Crawford, James
       2018., Pegasus Crime Call No: SC MYS Fic Cra   Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: A collection of crime stories set in iconic Scottish structures. Lin Anderson, Christopher Brookmyre, Ann Cleeves, Doug Johnstone, Stuart MacBride, Val McDermid, Gordon Brown, Denise Mina, Craig Robertson, Sara Sheridan, E.S. Thomson, Louise Welsh.
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      By Cleeves, Ann
       2013., Pan Books Call No: NEW SC MYS Fic Cle    Availability:0 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Twenty-five-year-old Lizzie Bartholomew has had more than her fair share of struggles. Abandoned as a baby, she spent her childhood moving between foster homes. Now she is running away from her past. A holiday in Morocco seems to be the perfect escape. Especially when she meets Philip, a fellow tourist who distracts her from her troubles. After the brief affair, Lizzie returns to England. Then she receives a solicitor's letter. 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 that will soon force Lizzie to confront terrifying secrets.
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      By Cleeves, Ann
       2017., Adult, Pan Books Call No: SC MYS Fic Cle   Edition: Paperback Edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Shetland Island   Volume: 7.Summary Note: "In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main road and sweeps down to the sea. At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Jimmy Perez watches the flood of mud and water smash through a house in its path. Everyone thinks the home is uninhabited, but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress. Perez soon becomes obsessed with tracing her identity and realizes he must find out who she was and how she died. Cold Earth is the next book in Ann Cleeves' beloved Shetland series, which is now a major success for the BBC and is available in U.S. through Netflix, PBS, and Acorn TV"-- Provided by publisher.
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      By Cleeves, Ann
       2001, c1999., Adult, Pan Books Call No: SC MYS Fic Cle    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Vera Stanhope   Volume: 1Summary Note: "At the isolated Baikie's Cottage on the North Pennines, three very different women come together to complete an environmental study. Three women who each know the meaning of betrayal... For team leader Rachael the project is the perfect opportunity to rebuild her confidence after a double -betrayal by her lover and boss, Peter Kemp. Botanist Anne, on the other hand, sees it as a chance to indulge in a little deceoption of her own. And then there is Grace, a strange, uncommunicative young woman with plenty of secrets of her own to hide... When Rachael arrives at the cottage, however, she is horrifed 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 women enter the picture - the unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope..."--Back cover.
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      By Cleeves, Ann
       2020., Adult, Macmillan Call No: MYS SC Fic Cle    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Vera Stanhope   Volume: 9.Summary Note: On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home in the hills. Though the road is familiar, she misses a turning and soon becomes lost and disorientated. A car has skidded off the narrow road in front of her, its door left open, and she stops to help. There is no driver to be seen, so Vera assumes that the owner has gone to find help. But a cry calls her back: a toddler is strapped in the back seat.Vera takes the child and, driving on, she arrives at a place she knows well. Brockburn is a large, grand house in the wilds of Northumberland, now a little shabby and run down. It's also where her father, Hector, grew up. Inside, there's a party in full swing: music, Christmas lights and laughter. Outside, unbeknownst to the revelers, a woman lies dead in the snow. As the blizzard traps the group deep in the freezing Northumberland countryside, Brockburn begins to give up its secrets, and as Vera digs deeper into her investigation, she also begins to uncover her family's complicated past.
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      By Cleeves, Ann
       2013., Adult, Macmillan Call No: SC MYS Fic Cle    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Shetland Island   Volume: 5Summary Note: When the body of journalist Jerry Markham is found in a traditional Shetland boat, outside the house of the Fiscal down at the Marina, young Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted in from the Hebrides to head up the investigation.
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      By Cleeves, Ann
       2012., Adult, Macmillan Call No: MYS Fic Cle    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Vera Stanhope   Volume: 5Summary Note: DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her hippy neighbours keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation so she has more tolerance for them than most. When one of them goes missing she feels duty-bound to find out what happened. But her path leads her to more than a missing friend ...It's an easy job to track the young woman down to the Writer's House, a country retreat where aspiring authors gather to workshop and work through their novels. It gets complicated when a body is discovered and Vera's neighbour is found with a knife in her hand. Calling in the team, Vera knows that she should hand the case over to someone else. She's too close to the main suspect. But the investigation is too tempting and she's never been one to follow the rules. Working with Sergeant Joe Ashworth, she starts the hunt for a murderer who is artistic as well as deadly. There seems to be no motive. No meaning to the crime.
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      By Cleeves, Ann
       2014., Macmillan Call No: MYS Fic Cle    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Vera Stanhope   Volume: 6Summary Note: aAs the snow falls thickly on Newcastle, the shouts and laughter of Christmas revellers break the muffled silence. Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter Jessie are swept along in the jostling crowd onto the Metro. But when the train is stopped due to the bad weather, and the other passengers fade into the swirling snow, Jessie notices that an old lady hasn't left the train: Margaret Krukowski has been fatally stabbed as she sat on the crowded train. Nobody, including the policeman himself, sees the stabbing take place. Margaret's murderer is seemingly invisible; her killing motiveless. Why would anyone want to harm this reserved, elegant lady?.
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      By Cleeves, Ann
       2021., Macmillan Audio Call No: SC MYS Fic Cle    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Two rivers   Volume: 2.Summary Note: North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder--Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed with a shard of one of his glassblower daughter's broken vases. Dr. Yeo seems an unlikely murder victim. He's a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter. Matthew is unnerved, though, to find that she is a close friend of Jonathan, his husband. Then another body is found--killed in a similar way. Matthew soon finds himself treading carefully through the lies that fester at the heart of his community and a case that is dangerously close to home. DI Matthew Venn returns in The Heron's Cry, in Ann Cleeves powerful next novel, proving once again that she is a master of her craft.
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      By Cleeves, Ann
       2019., Adult, Macmillan Call No: MYS SC Fic Cle    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Two Rivers   Volume: 1Summary Note: "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 day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family too. 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. 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. 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."--Provided by publisher.
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      By Cleeves, Ann
       2015., Adult, Macmillan Call No: MYS Fic Cle    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Vera Stanhope   Volume: 7Summary Note: The Moth Catcher is the seventh book in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series - now the major ITV detective drama Vera, starring Brenda Blethyn. In a valley in Northumberland, a shocking discovery shatters the peace in a quiet farming community. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter, a young ecologist, to look after the place while they're visiting family in Australia. Then Percy, a retired farm labourer who lives with his divorced daughter in a development on the farmland, finds Patrick, the house-sitter, dead by the side of the lane on the way into the valley. Vera Stanhope arrives on the scene, with her detectives Holly and Joe. When Vera looks round the attic of the big house - where Patrick has a flat - she finds the body of a second man. He's middle-aged, grey. What could the two victims have in common? Why were they killed on the same day, but their bodies found in separate locations?.
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      By Cleeves, Ann
       2023., Adult, Macmillan Audio Call No: NEW SC MYS Fic Cle    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Two Rivers   Volume: 3Summary Note: When Jem Rosco-sailor, adventurer, and legend-blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity in their midst. But just as abruptly as he arrived, Rosco disappears again, and soon his lifeless body is discovered in a dinghy, anchored off Scully Cove, a place with legends of its own. This is an uncomfortable case for Detective Inspector Matthew Venn. Greystone is a place he visited as a child, a community he parted ways with. Superstition and rumor mix with fact as another body is found, and Matthew finds his judgment clouded. As the winds howl, and Venn and his team investigate, he realizes that no one, including himself, is safe from Scully Cove's storm of dark secrets.
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      By Cleeves, Ann
       2006., Adult, Macmillan Call No: SC MYS Fic Cle    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Shetland Island   Volume: 1Summary Note: The murder of teenager Catherine Ross sends shockwaves through a small Shetland community, and most of the fingers of blame point to loner and simpleton Magnus Tait. But Catherine's vicious and sudden demise has thrown a veil of suspicion over everyone who knew her, and one local detective is keeping all options open.
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      By Cleeves, Ann
       2009., Macmillan Call No: MYS Fic Cle    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Shetland Island   Volume: 3Summary Note: "When a young archaeologist studying on a site at Whalsay discovers a set of human remains - the island community is intrigued. Is it an ancient find - or a more contemporary mystery? Then an elderly is shot on her land in a tragic accident and Jimmy Perez is called in by her grandson - his own colleague Sandy Wilson. He finds two feuding families whose envy, greed and bitterness has divided the surrounding community. With Fran in London, and surrounded by people he doesn't know and a community he has no links with - Jimmy finds himself out of depth. Then another woman dies and as the spring weather shrouds the island in claustrophobic mists the two deaths remain shrouded in mystery"--Publisher's description.
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      By Cleeves, Ann
       2022., Minotaur Books Call No: SC MYS Fic Cle    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Vera Stanhope   Volume: 10Summary Note: When a member of a group of friends, who meet regularly for reunions on Holy Island, is found hanged, Vera Stanhope must discover what the friends are hiding and whether the events of many years before could have led to murder then, and now.
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      By Cleeves, Ann
       2017., Adult, Macmillan Call No: MYS Fic Cle    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Vera Stanhope   Volume: 8.Summary Note: "A visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detective superintendent, and now inmate, John Brace. Brace was convicted of corruption and involvement in the death of a gamekeeper - and Vera played a part in his downfall. Brace promises Vera information about the disappearance of Robbie Marshall, a notorious wheeler-dealer, if she will look out for his daughter and grandchildren. He tells her that Marshall is dead, his body buried close to St Mary's Island in Whitley Bay. However, when a search team investigates, officers find not one skeleton, but two. This cold case takes Vera back in time, and very close to home, as Brace and Marshall, along with a mysterious stranger known only as 'the Prof', were close friends of Hector, her father. Together, they were 'the Gang of Four', and Hector had been one of the last people to see Marshall alive. Vera must confront her prejudices and unwanted memories to dig out the truth, as the past begins to collide dangerously with the present..."--Publisher.