Bay Tales, Whitley Bay's annual crime fiction festival, returns to Playhouse Whitley Bay on Saturday, March 1, with festivalgoers expected from all over the country ...

Vera author Ann Cleeves is bringing back another famous TV detractive in a new novel much to the delight of fans ...

Just weeks after millions of viewers bid a sad farewell to Vera, its author Ann Cleeves has confirmed the return of another popular TV detective, after their exit from a primetime drama also upset ...

Author Ann Cleeves has become great friends with Brenda Blethyn who played Vera in the series. Credit: ITV After 14 years, the popular ITV drama Vera has come to an end, but the author of the book ...

Pan Books’ editorial director Alex Saunders, who is Cleeves’ UK editor at Pan, said: “A new novel from Ann Cleeves is always an exciting proposition but the fact that 2025 will see the ...

The latest book, from the author who also created detectives Vera Stanhope and Matthew Venn, will be published in October. Ann Cleeves said swapping the location for the new book was a "leap of ...

And Vera will, of course, continue to crack crime in Ann Cleeves’s books - and there will be 56 episodes available to watch on TV repeats." The first episode of Vera's final series will air from ...