‘It’s more than a pretty backdrop’: crime writer Ann Cleeves on the magic of Orkney in Scotland
With her latest book, the author moves detective Jimmy Perez from Shetland to Orkney, where she was inspired by the deep history, huge skies and warm people
December 2022
Ann Cleeves loses laptop containing draft of new book in Shetland blizzard
Crime writer offers reward for return of computer, thought to have fallen out of bag during wintry weather
June 2017
The Guardian Books podcast
Scottish crime fiction with Ann Cleeves and Chris Brookmyre – books podcast
We investigate the murky world of tartan noir, and look into this week’s headline honours, the Baileys and children’s laureate
May 2015
Why I love …
Crime writer Ann Cleeves on the Shetland Islands
The author on four decades of inspiration from the austere but beautiful islands that you must call Shetland and not the Shetlands
September 2013
Nordic noir's sexual violence attacked by British crime writer
Bestselling author Ann Cleeves condemns gruesome scenes and morbid tone of Scandinavian books and TV dramas
January 2013
The Northerner
Northern writers join protests against library cuts in Newcastle
Lee Hall and Ann Cleeves will be speaking at a demonstration against council arts cuts tonight, before joining other authors in highlighting individual libraries under threat. Alan Sykes reports
