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Talks

Ann Cleeves in Conversation

Thursday 11 February

Quick summary

Price
£12 includes a drink on arrival
Audience type
Ages 16+
Running time
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Venue
  • Culture House Sunderland

Additional information

Your ticket price includes either a glass of wine or soft drink on arrival

Event description

Crime writing legend and Vera creator, Ann Cleeves joins us to look back at her career and celebrate the release of her fortieth novel, The Dying Light, the fourth book in the Two Rivers series starring Detective Matthew Venn.

  • Event chaired by Vic Watson from multi-award nominated Bay Tales Festival
  • Book sales and signing by Featherbed Books

About The Dying Light

Caught between a powerful family’s secrets and a powder keg of local tensions inflamed by the media, Venn must navigate a treacherous path when he is called to investigate the death of a local girl found in the swimming pool of political rising star, Paul Armstrong.

 

About the Author

Ann Cleeves is the author of forty novels, and in 2017 was awarded the highest accolade in crime writing, the CWA Diamond Dagger. Her books have been adapted into internationally popular TV series in ITV’s Vera and The Long Call, and BBC One’s Shetland.

In 2022, she was awarded an OBE for her services to reading and libraries. She lives in Whitley Bay.

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