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  • Location: Northumberland, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (fictional Mardle)

Harbour Street (Vera Stanhope 6)

2000s: Ann Cleeves. Northumberland. A classic crime writer who lives and breathes the North East! Mardle and Partington may be fictional but they are inspired…

  • Location: Shetland Islands, Sullom Voe

Dead Water (Shetland 5)

2000s: Shetland is once again evoked through the eyes of Ann Cleeves whose love for the islands shines through. Here she writes about the fishing…

  • Location: Fair Isle

Blue Lightning (Shetland 4)

2000s: Set in the autumn – a time of bird migration, storms and a murder…..

  • Location: Shetland islands, Whalsay

Red Bones (Shetland 3)

2000s: Any Ann Cleeves title is good to read as it depicts  Shetland so well – this time we are off to Whalsay, Symbister and…

  • Location: Northumberland

The Glass Room (Vera Stanhope 5)

2000s: It takes place in a writer’s House, a country retreat in Northumberland where inspiring authors gather to work on their novels. A great literary…

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The Hiding Season

2026: You go to the mountains to escape, right? WRONG

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