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
Daniella Perez Kis Magro and Herson Capri. Perez was married to actor Raul Gazolla, whom she met on the set of "Kananga do Japão", from 1990 until her death. Perez was only 22 years old when she was brutally murdered by former actor Guilherme de Pádua (her co-star in "De Corpo de Alma") and his then-wife, Paula Nogueira Thomaz, pregnant at the time. She now goes by the name of Paula Nogueira Peixoto. On the night of December 28, 1992, Perez was ambushed and killed by 18 stab wounds that pierced through her neck, lungs and heart. The reason behind the crime