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Informationen zum Autor Ann Cleeves is the author behind ITV's Vera and BBC One's Shetland . She has written over thirty novels! and is the creator of detectives Vera Stanhope and Jimmy Perez - characters loved both on screen and in print. Her books have now sold millions of copies worldwide. Ann worked as a probation officer! bird observatory cook and auxiliary coastguard before she started writing. She is a member of 'Murder Squad'! working with other British northern writers to promote crime fiction. In 2006 Ann was awarded the Duncan Lawrie Dagger (CWA Gold Dagger) for Best Crime Novel for Raven Black ! the first book in her Shetland series. Some of her other novels include the popular Shetland series! Raven Black ! White Nights ! Red Bones ! Blue Lightning ! Dead Water and Thin Air . In 2012 she was inducted into the CWA Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame and is the 2017 recipient of the CWA Diamond Dagger! the highest honour in British crime writing.. Ann lives in North Tyneside. Klappentext A visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detective superintendent! and now inmate! John Brace. Brace was convicted of corruption and involvement in the death of a gamekeeper - and Vera played a key part in his downfall. Now! Brace promises Vera information about the disappearance of Robbie Marshall! a notorious wheeler-dealer who disappeared in the mid-nineties! if she will look out for his daughter and grandchildren. He tells her that Marshall is dead! and that his body is buried close to St Mary's Island in Whitley Bay. However! when a search team investigates! officers find not one skeleton! but two. This cold case takes Vera back in time! and very close to home! as Brace and Marshall! along with a mysterious stranger known only as 'the Prof'! were friends of Hector! her father. Together! they were the 'Gang of Four'! regulars at a glamorous nightclub called The Seagull. Hector had been one of the last people to see Marshall alive. As the past begins to collide dangerously with the present! Vera confronts her prejudices and unwanted memories to dig out the truth . . . The Seagull is a searing new novel by Sunday Times bestselling author Ann Cleeves! about corruption deep in the heart of a community! and fragile! and fracturing! family relationships. Zusammenfassung The Seagull is Ann Cleeves' searing eighth novel in the bestselling Vera Stanhope series! about corruption deep in the heart of a community! and about fragile! and fracturing! family relationships. Shrewd. Smart. Challenging. Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope is on the case. When prison inmate and former police officer John Brace says he's willing to give up information about a long-dead wheeler dealer in return for protection for his family! Vera knows that she has to look into his claims. But opening up this cold case strikes much closer to home than Vera anticipates as her investigation takes her back in time to The Seagull! a once decadent and now derelict nightclub where her deceased father and his friends used to congregate. As Vera's past collides dangerously with the present! she will have to confront her unwanted memories and face the possibility that her father was involved in what happened. The truth is about to come out but is Vera ready for what it will reveal? ...
