Brenda Blethyn, who has played Vera Stanhope on ITV for 14 years, and Ann Cleeves, who created the character, were presented ...

Actor Brenda Blethyn and writer Ann Cleeves received Outstanding Contribution honours at Saturday's Royal Television Society ...

The best-selling author behind TV series Shetland has announced the return of her fictional detective, DI Jimmy Perez. Ann Cleeves' new book, The Killing Stones, picks up after a gap of seven ...

Fans of the Vera Stanhope novels already available in the U.S., as well as the TV series Vera, will welcome Cleeves’s intricate series opener (first published in 1998), which introduced the ...

Crime writer Ann Cleeves and TV presenter and farmer Matt Baker are among those being awarded in the Queen's New Year Honours list. Ms Cleeves, creator of detective series such as Vera Stanhope ...

The book and the TV drama is about digging into the past to ... “Shetlanders should be proud of the series because they contributed so much to the show. From the archaeologist who recreated ...

First of the Detective Matthew Venn books, by Ann Cleeves. Minotaur Books ... Adrian McKinty has written seven books to date in this series about a young Catholic police officer working in ...

Pride Media Centre, Fulwell 73 and Hat Trick Productions were also among the prizes at the glittering ceremony at The Hilton ...

Vera star Brenda Blethyn and writer Ann Cleeves were honoured at the Royal Television Society awards. The pair were recognised for their "outstanding contribution" to TV for their roles in the popular ...

Actor Brenda Blethyn and writer Ann Cleeves - the two women behind the success of Vera - have received special honours at the Royal Television ... to the area. Her series of Vera Stanhope novels ...