- Author = ann cleeves
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THE MOTH CATCHER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2015). SIGNED first edition - The seventh novel in the Vera Stanhope series. SIGNED on the title page.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87646More details Price: $40.00 -
BURIAL OF GHOSTS.
Edition: Trade paperback.
London: Pan / Macmillan, (2023). A stand-alone novel by this highly praised writer, a psychological thriller featuring a young woman, abandoned as an infant and raised as a foster child, who has to battle her own secrets when she receives an unexpected legacy - one that comes with conditions. In her introduction to this new edition, Cleeves comments that this is her only novel written in the first person. 329 pp. plus an excerpt from "The Long Call.". ISBN: 978-1529070521.
Condition: Very near fine (some toning)
Book ID: 91374More details Price: $12.50 -
THE MOTH CATCHER.
Edition: First printing.
London: Macmillan, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh novel in the Vera Stanhope series. 388 pp.
Condition: Ex-library but with only a few markings, but overall tight and clean but some of the usual toning to the paper in a near fine unmarked dj.
Book ID: 90598More details Price: $25.00 -
THE HERON'S CRY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2021) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel in the Two Rivers series, set in North Devon, featuring Detective Matthew Venn and DC Jen Rafferty. Map frontispiece. 382 pp. ISBN: 978-1250204479.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89943More details Price: $18.00 -
THE CROW TRAP.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2017) dj. Hardcover - Mystery set in the North Pennines, introducing detective Vera Stanhope. Basis for the BBC series "Vera." 535 pp. ISBN: 978-1250122735.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (short tear at base of dj spine) . Uncommon in the hardcover edition
Book ID: 89941More details Price: $50.00 -
COLD EARTH.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh book in her Shetland series, featuring Detective Jimmy Perez - in the dark winter, a landslide uncovers a dark secret, Basis for the BBC television series. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 978-1250107381.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89791More details Price: $50.00 -
COLD EARTH.
Edition: First printing.
London: Macmillan, (2016). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh book in her Shetland series, featuring Detective Jimmy Perez - in the dark winter, a landslide uncovers a dark secret, Basis for the BBC television series. SIGNED on the title page. 387 pp. ISBN: 978-1447278184.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89790More details Price: $60.00 -
RAVEN BLACK.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: St Martin's, (2007). The first mystery in her Shetland series, introducing detective Inspector Jimmy Perez. 376 pp. ISBN: 978-0312359676.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88490More details Price: $13.50 -
THE SEAGULL
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighth novel in this series featuring Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope. Basis for the BBC series "Vera." 387 pp. ISBN: 978-1250204509.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87680More details Price: $50.00 -
HIGH ISLAND BLUES.
Edition: First printing.
London: Macmillan, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring dedicated bird-watcher George Palmer-Jones, set in a small town on the upper Gulf coast of Texas where the Houston Audubon Society has two sanctuaries which attract bird lovers from around the world. SIGNED on the title page. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-333660110.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87649More details Price: $200.00 -
THE RISING TIDE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2022) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The tenth novel in this series set in Northumberland, England, featuring detective Vera Stanhope. Basis for the BBC series "Vera." SIGNED on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 978-1250204479.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87784More details Price: $40.00 -
THE HERON'S CRY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2021) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel in the Two Rivers series, set in North Devon, featuring Detective Matthew Venn and DC Jen Rafferty. Map frontispiece. SIGNED on the title page. 382 pp. ISBN: 978-1250204479.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket ("#2 Matthew Venn" on front endpaper)
Book ID: 87783More details Price: $35.00 -
THE SLEEPING AND THE DEAD.
Edition: First printing.
London: Macmillan, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An early novel by Cleeves, a taut psychological thriller preceding her popular Shetland and Vera series. Detective Chief Inspector Peter Porteus came to the small town of Cranston to escape the pressure of urban police work, so he was not expecting that one of his first cases would be a murder investigation. Shortly after he arrives, the body of a teenager who disappeared many years ago is found in the lake - as they begin to dig into the past the body of another teenager is found and it appears that history is repeating itself. SIGNED on the title page. Uncommon in the true first edition, and especially so signed. 395 pp. ISBN: 0-333-906489.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87782More details Price: $300.00 -
SILENT VOICES.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Northumberland, England, featuring detective Vera Stanhope. Basis for the BBC series "Vera." SIGNED on the title page. The first book in this series to be published in the US. 314 pp. ISBN: 9781250033581.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 59777More details Price: $60.00 -
TELLING TALES.
Edition: First printing.
London: Macmillan, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second in this series featuring Inspector Vera Stanhope. When it turns out that a young woman who had been convicted ten years earlier of murdering a teen-age girl was innocent - a discovery which came right after she committed suicide in prison - Vera is sent to the small town of Everts to find out what what wrong with the initial investigation. A second murder soon follows. Basis for the BBC series "Vera." . SIGNED on the title page. 410 pp. ISBN: 1405046473.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (usual toning to the page, light creasing to the upper corners of a few pages, price-clipped, minor edgewear to dj) Uncommon in the hardcover first edition and especially so signed.
Book ID: 87715More details Price: $225.00 -
THE LONG CALL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2019). SIGNED first edition - The first novel in the Two Rivers series, set in North Devon, and introducing Detective Matthew Venn. SIGNED on the title page. 375 pp. Letter from publisher laid in.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon ARC.
Book ID: 87022More details Price: $45.00 -
THE LONG CALL.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel in the Two Rivers series, set in North Devon, and introducing Detective Matthew Venn. SIGNED on the title page. Map frontispiece. 375 pp. ISBN: 978-1250204448.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 87021More details Price: $45.00 -
COLD EARTH.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
London: Macmillan, (2016). SIGNED - The seventh book in her Shetland series, featuring Detective Jimmy Perez - in the dark winter, a landslide uncovers a dark secret, Basis for the BBC television series. SIGNED on the title page. 387 pp. ISBN: 978-1447278214.
Condition: Very good (bit of creasing to spine, toning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 76546More details Price: $27.50 -
BURIAL OF GHOSTS.
Edition: First printing.
London: Macmillan, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A stand-alone novel by this highly praised writer, a psychological thriller featuring a young woman, abandoned as an infant and raised as a foster child, who has to battle her own secrets when she receives an unexpected legacy - one that comes with conditions. SIGNED on the title page. Uncommon in the first edition and especially so signed. 344 pp. ISBN: 1405001135.
Condition: Fine in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine in a fine dust jacket (appears unread but with the usual light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 65681More details Price: $275.00 -
THE SLEEPING AND THE DEAD.
Edition: First printing.
London: Macmillan, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Detective Chief Inspector Peter Porteus came to the small town of Cranston to escape the pressure of urban police work, so he was not expecting that one of his first cases would be a murder investigation. ISIGNED on the title page. 395 pp. ISBN: 0-333-906489.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, rather severe spine slant, in a good only dust jacket with creasing and edgewear. A flawed copy of a book which is quite hard to find in the true first edition, and especially so signed,
Book ID: 68944More details Price: $60.00 -
THE SLEEPING AND THE DEAD.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Ann Arbor MI: Bloody Brits, (2007). SIGNED - "Peter Porteous fled the pressures of big city crime to be a small town cop. . . but he soon finds out there is no getting away with murder." SIGNED on the title page. 299 pp. ISBN: 978-1932859416.
Condition: Very near fine.
Book ID: 66253More details Price: $28.50 -
DEAD WATER.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2015). SIGNED - The fifth book in her series of mystery set in the Shetland islands, and the first book in the a new quartet. SIGNED on the title page. Basis for the BBC crime drama series "Shetland." 400 pp. ISBN: .
Condition: Good overall in illustrated wrappers (some wear to the covers).
Book ID: 65923More details Price: $20.00 -
HARBOUR STREET.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
London: Macmillan, (2014). SIGNED - Sixth mystery featuring detective Vera Stanhope. Basis for the BBC series "Vera." SIGNED on the title page. 376 pp. ISBN: 978-1447254461.
Condition: Very good (crease to lower corner of front cover)
Book ID: 63532More details Price: $24.50 -
DEAD WATER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth book in her series of mystery set in the Shetland islands, and the first book in the a new quartet. SIGNED on the title page. Also includes a brochure with a map of the Shetland Islands showing the locations of all the books in the series and also SIGNED by Cleeves. Basis for the BBC crime drama series "Shetland.". ISBN: 978-1250036605.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 59780More details Price: $75.00 -
BOOKS TO DIE FOR: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder line, toning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 87766More details Price: $60.00
