Книги Энн Кливз
Энн Кливз - автор 22 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Ловушка для ворона, Рассказывая сказки, Немые голоса. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
"Ловушка для ворона" Энн Кливз – ещё одна книга в копилку классики английского детектива. Однако, в отличие от многих коллег по жанру, в этом произведении Энн Кливз больше всего интересует не только само преступление и процедура разоблачения убийцы, но и подробный анализ событий, приведших к катастрофе. В центре внимания писательницы три очень не похожие друг на друга женщины – Рэйчел, Энн и Гре...
Десять лет прошло с тех пор, как Джини Лонг обвинили в убийстве пятнадцатилетней Эбигейл Мэнтел. А теперь обитатели Йоркширской деревни Элвет с ужасом узнают, что появились новые улики, свидетельствующие о невиновности Джини. Значит, убийца Эбигейл все еще на свободе. Для Эммы Беннетт это открытие означает возвращение воспоминаний о жизнерадостной подруге – и о жутком зимнем дне, когда она обнар...
Жизнь инспектора Веры Стенхоуп не может быть спокойной даже вне работы. В сауне местного спортзала, куда она приходит отвлечься, работа снова ее настигает: рядом лежит труп женщины с синяками на шее. Интересно, Вера хоть когда-нибудь видела людей, которые умерли спокойно? От нового расследования у Веры бурлит кровь. Смерть еще никогда не заставляла ее чувствовать себя такой живой. Но в прошлом жер...
Очередное жаркое лето на побережье Нортумберленда. Джули Армстронг возвращается домой после вечерней прогулки и обнаруживает, что ее сын убит. Люка задушили, положили в наполненную ванну и украсили дикими цветами. Эта стилизованная сцена убийства заинтриговала инспектора Веру Стэнхоуп и ее команду. Но они должны действовать быстро, чтобы найти таинственного маньяка. А пока местные жители вынуждены...
ОТ ЛАУРЕАТА САМОЙ ПРЕСТИЖНОЙ ПРЕМИИ В ДЕТЕКТИВНОМ ЖАНРЕ CWA DIAMOND DAGGER AWARDS.КНИГА ЛЕГЛА В ОСНОВУ СЕРИАЛА «ВЕРА».В уединенном Доме писателей на побережье Нортумберленда проводится курс для начинающих авторов «Литературное вскрытие: Как писать короткий детективный рассказ». Целую неделю участники оттачивали свое мастерство и продумывали безупречный сценарий убийства. Неудивительно, что однажды...
Классический детектив, вот только не английский, а шотландский. Чем шотландский детектив отличается от английского? Прежде всего атмосферой – таинственной, тревожной, напряжение сгущается с каждой страницей, чтобы в конце обязательно выплеснуться неожиданным финалом. Энн Кливз – последовательница самого успешного шотландского детективщика Йена Рэнкина. Она сплетает детективный сюжет, психологическ...
Too Good to Be True is a gripping Quick Read from Ann Cleeves, featuring Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez from the bestselling Shetland series. When young teacher Anna Blackwell is found dead in her home, the police think her death was suicide or a tragic accident. After all, Stonebridge is a quiet country village in the Scottish Borders, where murders just don't happen. But Detective Inspector J...
Vera Stanhope's first appearance was in The Crow Trap, published in 1999 and now available in a new edition; it forms the third episode of the TV seies Vera, adapted by Stephen Brady. 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...
When an elderly woman is shot in a tragic accident, Shetland detective Jimmy Perez is called to investigate. The sparse landscape and the emptiness of the sea have bred a fierce and secretive people. As Jimmy looks to the islanders for answers, he finds instead two feuding families whose envy, greed and bitterness have lasted generations. Then there’s another death and, as the spring weather...
Detective Peter Porteous is called to Cranwell Lake where the body of a teenager has been discovered. After trawling through the missing persons files, he deduces that the corpse is Michael Grey, an enigmatic and secretive young man who was reported missing by his foster parents in 1972. For country prison officer Hannah Morton it is the shock of her life. Michael had been her boyfriend, and she...
Shetland: Welcoming. Wild. Remote. Drawn in by the reputation of the islands, an English family move to the area, eager to give their autistic son a better life. But when a young nanny’s body is found hanging in the barn of their home, rumours of her affair with the husband begin to spread like wild fire. With suspicion raining down on the family, DI Jimmy Perez is called in to investigat...
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 to head up the investigation. Since the death of his fiancee, Inspector Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop, but his interest in this new case is stirred and he decides to help the inquiry. Markham - originall...
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 key part in his downfall. Now, Brace promises Vera information about the disappearance of Robbie Marshall, a notorious wheeler-dealer who disappeared in ...
A hot summer on the Northumberland coast, and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son murdered. Luke has been strangled, laid out in a bath of water, and covered with wild flowers. This stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera Stanhope and her team intrigued. But then a second bodythat of beautiful young teacher Lily Marshis discovered laid out in a rock pool, the water strew...
Ten years after Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail Mantel, disturbing new evidence proving her innocence emerges in the East Yorkshire village of Elvet. Abigail's killer is still at large. For Emma Bennett, the revelation brings back haunting memories of her vibrant best friend - and of the fearful winter's day when she had discovered her body lying cold in a di...
When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, she wonders briefly if, for once in her life, she's uncovered a simple death from natural causes. Then Vera spots ligature marks around the victim's throat - death is never that simple... Vera revels being back in charge of an investigation again, working with Sergeant Joe Ashworth to find a motive. Wh...
Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to Fair Isle. It's a community where strangers, while welcomed, are still viewed with a degree of mistrust. With the autumn storms raging, the island feels cut off from the rest of the world. Trapped, tension is high and tempers among the islanders become frayed. Enough to drive someone to murder? When a b...
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 count...
Life seems perfect in Valley Farm, a quiet community in Northumberland. Then a shocking discovery shatters the silence. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter, a young ecologist named Patrick, to look after the place while they're away. But Patrick is found dead by the side of the lane into the valley - a beautiful, lonely place to die. DI Vera Stanhope arrives on t...
In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main Lerwick-Sumburgh road and sweeps down to the sea. At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Jimmy Perez watches the flood of mud and peaty water smash through a croft house in its path. Everyone thinks the croft is uninhabited, but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing...
A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Unst, Shetland's most northerly island, to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends to a Shetlander. But late on the night of the wedding party, one of them, Eleanor, disappears - apparently into thin air. It's mid-summer, a time of light nights and unexpected mists. The following day, Eleanor's friend Polly re...
Shetlandil on valged ood. Too aeg aastas, kus linnud laulavad ka keskool ja paike ei lahegi looja. Kunstnik Bella Sinclair korraldab korvalises Biddista rannikukulas peo, et oma uut kunstiteost tutvustada. Jargmisel paeval leitakse piirkonnast surnukeha, pea jamedast koiest silmuses. Laibale lahemale astunud, markab Shetlandi uurija Jimmi Perez irvitavat klounimaski. Esimese hooga paistab poodu ol...
