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Ann Cleeves talks about her iconic characters and the hallmarks of crime

“Raymond Chandler says, if you’re stuck with a book have a guy burst through a door with a gun. I don’t do guns, but I was writing this funeral scene and they were in the chapel, so I had the door burst open. And really, almost literally, in came Vera”
Ann Cleeves © Marie Fitzgerald
Ann Cleeves © Marie Fitzgerald
Characters face their own mortality in Ann Cleeves‘ tenth novel in the Vera Stanhope series.

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