Discover Top Posts Tagged with #ann cleeves

Popular Recent

Should I have closed out 2025 by spending almost $100 on used books? Probably not. But look at all my beautiful used books!

#books #book stack #first editions #i had the hilary mantel and then The Worst Movers LOST them #meaning that the mirror and the light (postdating Worst Movers) was all alone #ngaio marsh #vajra chandrasekera #hilary mantel #ann cleeves #penelope lively #adultbooklr

what do you mean, there's a crime novel turned tv series by the writer of Shetland that has an openly gay detective, played by an openly gay actor, a diverse cast including a character with down syndrome, played by an actress with down syndrome, and is set in Wales?

Sign me the fuck up!

#the long call #matthew venn #ann cleeves #ben aldridge

Have you read The Long Call by Ann Cleeves (2019)?

YES

Voting ended onApr 15, 2025

#the long call #ann cleeves #polls

A Look Back At Matthew Venn In The Long Call🩵

#BenAldridge

#ben aldridge #spoiler alert the hero dies #knock at the cabin #pennyworth #benaldridge #benjaminaldridge #our girl #the long call #matthew venn #declan bennett #benjamin aldridge #london #london boy #gay man #gayman #gay drama #devon #ann cleeves #gay love

Douglas Henshall as DI Jimmy Pérez

Shetland

#douglas henshall #shetland #detective #crime #ann cleeves #author extraordinaire

SHETLAND (2013 - PRESENT) Douglas Henshall as Jimmy Pérez & Mark Bonnar as Duncan Hunter

#shetland #bbc shetland #shetland bbc #jimmy perez #douglas henshall #duncan hunter #mark bonnar #jimmy x duncan #shetlandedit #literature #ann cleeves #ours #by kraina #malecharacters #otpsource #filmtvcentral #crimeshowsource #userthing #smallscreensource

It was all very ordinary, rather mundane, but he had the sense that nothing would quite be the same again.

Ann Cleeves, from The Raging Storm

#ann cleeves #the raging storm

Books of the Month: March 2024

A look back! I read more books in March than I thought I had, but it's getting busy in my world of finishing the academic semester/prepping for summer camp, so the reading-for-pleasure pace is slowing considerably. Here's some books from my March that I liked and would recommend!

Raven Black, by Ann Cleeves: First in the Shetland mystery series (I think there is a TV show based on these; from what I can tell there are several differences between show and book series). I've been reading a lot of mysteries that are a little shorter, and feel more quickly written? or something - they aren't bad, but don't take time with the narration. Cleeves writes thoughtfully about people and place and plot. I enjoyed it.

The Seas, by Samantha Hunt: What a funky little book. Is the young woman narrator psychotic, or is she actually a mermaid? Don't go in expecting a solid answer to that question. The book keeps you guessing.

Point of Honour, by Madeleine E. Robins: Not quite like other Regency mysteries, this is set in an alternate historical world where the Queen is regent (but her health declining). Meanwhile, Sarah Tolerance is a Fallen Woman who lives at her aunt's brothel, but prefers to earn her keep by being an inquiry agent who dresses in men's clothes regularly and is very very good with a sword (thanks to her deceased lover). Maybe you can see why I liked this book. Now I just need to get my hands on the third in the series (not at my library! or available through ILL!)

Nona the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir: I guess if you haven't read this yet I can't convince you to? I will say that I don't have the same exact kind of brain rot over the characters in the lesbian space necromancer books as some tumblrites (this is not an insult, I get brain rot over other characters, it's just very subjective) but I do find myself thinking almost obsessively about the plot threads and reveals and everything whenever I read these books. And tearing up occasionally. It's just good writing. And plot ideas/setting concepts that no one else has ever had in the history of the world.