Television turned the Vera Stanhope books and then the Shetland books into must-watch favorites for fans of police procedurals - and Cleeves into a star. The first featured curmudgeonly Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope.Ĭleeves’s success story took a major turn when a TV producer discovered a used copy of a Vera book in a charity shop. Raven Black was the first in a mystery series set in the Shetland islands off the coast of Scotland, featuring detective Jimmy Perez, an unlikely hero who moves the step-daughter he raised back to the small island after the death of her mother. That’s the overnight part.īut she’d been publishing a novel a year for twenty years. Kingdom is an overnight success story that took decades to write.Ĭleeves’s 2006 novel, Raven Black, won the Crime Writers’ Association Duncan Lawrie Dagger for the best crime novel of the year the prize money of £20,000 allowed Cleeves to quit her day job at a Yorkshire library. Into two (and counting) highly successful television series in the United Her, though, because the unassuming former library worker and camp cook whoseīrooding crime novels have hit bestseller lists on two continents and been turned
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