Bouchercon International Guest of Honor Ann Cleeves chats with Danielle Girard

This award winner celebrated publishing 30 books in 30 years in 2016 and just keeps going. Ann Cleeves’s books have been translated into twenty languages. Raven Black was shortlisted for the Martin Beck award for best translated crime novel in Sweden in 2007. It has been adapted for radio in Germany – and in the UK where it was a Radio Times pick of the day when it was first broadcast Radio adaptations of Raven Black and White Nights have both been repeated. Ten series of VERA, the ITV adaptation starring Brenda Blethyn, have been shown in the UK and worldwide, and series eleven (delayed because of the coronavirus) is currently in progress; there have also been five series of SHETLAND, based on the characters and settings of her Shetland novels, with a sixth currently airing. A television adaptation of THE LONG CALL, the first in Ann’s new series set in North Devon, was also broadcast in October 2021.