Quotes About Ann Cleeves

I read Ann Cleeves's books and think the way she paints Shetland is very interesting.

She forwarded it to Vera

was she keen to let slip that she'd been back to visit Joanna the night before. He began with a recap.

I found her a little irritating – she was one of those rather self-righteous women with a heightened belief in their own moral superiority

My memory's not so good. I blame the ECT but it's probably just age.

Oh, a sense of humour,' Vera said. 'I do like a sense of humour in a villain.

My work is less violent because we tend to write what we want to read... and I'm not that interested in gruesome books. Any violence, to fit in well with a crime novel, has to have compassion.