The Sleeping and the Dead

A Stunning Psychological Thriller From the Author of the Vera Stanhope Crime Series

By: Ann Cleeves

Narrated by: John Telfer

The Sleeping and the Dead is a tense and twisting detective story from Ann Cleeves, creator of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope series.

Northumberland detective Peter Porteous is called to Cranwell Lake, where a diving instructor has made a gruesome discovery. In the water lies a corpse – the body of a teenager who has clearly been dead for many years.

After trawling through the missing persons files, Porteous comes to the conclusion that the corpse is Michael Grey, an enigmatic and secretive young man who was reported missing by his foster parents in 1972.

The news report leaves prison officer Hannah Morton in shock. Michael had been her boyfriend, and she had been with him the night he disappeared. And now the discovery is bringing back dreaded, long-buried memories from her past . . .

'Cleeves again excels in her sense of place in this cleverly plotted psychological thriller' – The Times

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Praise for Ann Cleeves:

'Ann Cleeves is a stone cold genius' – Marian Keyes, author of My Favorite Mistake

'Everything Ann Cleeves writes is incredible' – Richard Osman, author of The Thursday Murder Club

'Ann Cleeves’s elegance as a wordsmith, the ingenuity of her plots, and the depth of her characters can be matched by few writers' – David Baldacci, author of The 6:20 Man

Critic reviews

Cleeves again excels in her sense of place in this cleverly plotted psychological thriller

A suspenseful crime story that puts Ms Cleeves in the Rendell class

A triumph . . . one of Britain's best crime writers