Ann Cleeves is the author of more than thirty-five critically acclaimed novels, and in 2017 was awarded the highest accolade in crime writing, the CWA Diamond Dagger. She is the creator of popular detectives Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez and Matthew Venn, who can be found on television in ITV’s Vera, BBC One’s Shetland and ITV's The Long Call respectively. The TV series and the books they are based on have become international sensations, capturing the minds of millions worldwide.

Ann worked as a probation officer, bird observatory cook and auxiliary coastguard before she started writing. She is a member of ‘Murder Squad’, working with other British northern writers to promote crime fiction. Ann also spends her time advocating for reading to improve health and wellbeing and supporting access to books. In 2021 her Reading for Wellbeing project launched with local authorities across the North East. She lives in North Tyneside where the Vera books are set.

Burial of Ghosts is a page-turning standalone novel from Ann
Cleeves, author and creator of the three astounding TV
series: Shetland, Vera and The Long Call.
Abandoned as a baby, twenty-five-year-old Lizzie
Bartholomew spent her childhood moving between foster
homes and has had more than her fair share of troubles.
Now a holiday in Morocco seems to be the perfect escape.
Especially when she meets Philip, a fellow tourist. After a
brief affair, Lizzie returns to England, only to find a solicitor's
letter waiting for her.
Philip Samson has died and in his will, has left Lizzie a gift of
£15,000. But there are conditions attached to this
unexpected legacy that will soon force Lizzie to confront
terrifying secrets from her past life . . .