Ann Cleeves Ann Cleeves Ann Cleeves (born 1954) is an English crime-writer. In 2006 she won the inaugural Duncan Lawrie Dagger, the richest crime-writing prize in the world, for her novel "Raven Black". Cleeves studied English at Sussex University but dropped out. She then took up various jobs including cook, auxiliary coastguard, probation officer, library outreach worker and child care officer. She lives in Whitley Bay, and is widowed with two daughters. The Vera Stanhope novels have been dramatized as the TV detective series "Vera" and the Jimmy Perez novels as the series "Shetland". In 2014 Cleeves was awarded an Honorary Doctorate
Joel Perez his acting. He proceeded to waiting tables, working on transcriptions, and also worked for a clothing company named Moosey as a photographer. Perez also worked with a New York City awareness campaign for domestic violence titled "Text for Life". He played the role of a boyfriend who was pressuring his girlfriend to send him naked pictures. Later on, Perez also worked as a PA for a PBS show named "History Detectives". Perez began his career in 2010 with a role in the national tour of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony Award-winning musical "In the Heights". Perez was inspired by the play before