Ann Cleeves Press. 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
Elizabeth Haynes (crime writer) 2011. Following publication by Harper Collins in the USA it became a "New York Times" bestseller. Her second novel, "Revenge of the Tide" (U.S. title: "Dark Tide"), was published in the UK by Myriad Editions in March 2012 and her third novel, "Human Remains", was published in February 2013. Elizabeth's fourth novel, "Under A Silent Moon", was released on E-Book on 15 October 2013 and was released in paperback on 24 April 2014. Elizabeth Haynes (crime writer) Elizabeth Haynes is a British writer of crime fiction. Elizabeth Haynes grew up in Seaford, East Sussex, and studied English, German and Art