For your TBR pile-a high recommendation

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Ann Cleeves’s books are among my favorites.  Raven Black starts the Jimmy Perez series.  All of the novels in the series are set on Shetland, a place that truly comes to life and a spot that I would love to see.  The cast of characters is wonderful and characters grow and change over the course of the novels.  Both the Shetland and the Vera Stanhope books (to be described below) have been made into TV series.  They are available at times on PBS or at acorntv.com or Netflix.  Often I do not enjoy the televised versions of series I have read as the characters do not look or feel as I had imagined.  These issues were pretty easily overcome and I watch every available episode.

Vera Stanhope is large and ungainly; she is single, middle-aged and a workaholic.  She is intelligent and always gets to where she needs to be.  Every novel in this series is a good and absorbing read as one gets to know Vera and her squad room.  Highly recommended.

Also, there are two earlier series.  I will post a couple of covers below.

Inspector Ramsay series

George and Mary Palmer Jones series

If you are looking for some series to run through, you cannot go wrong with the novels of Ann Cleeves.  Enjoy!

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