Ann Cleeves Classic Crime Four Book Set (RMT710A)

Before Vera Stanhope stalked the Northumberland moors and Jimmy Perez kept order in Shetland, Ann Cleeves was writing the George and Molly Palmer-Jones mysteries -  quieter, more leisurely, steeped in the natural world and the tight communities it draws together. George is a retired civil servant and devoted birdwatcher; Molly is sharper than he gives her credit for. Together they have an instinct for the places where a community's surface calm conceals something older and darker underneath. These novels - the first four in the series, now reissued as Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - are where one of Britain's best-loved crime writers first found her voice.

Ann Cleeves, A Bird in the Hand - A young birdwatcher found dead on the Norfolk coast, and a community that liked him less than it pretended.

Ann Cleeves, Come Death and High Water - A Devon island, a storm, a body in the bird hide, and every member of the trust with something to hide.

Ann Cleeves, Murder in Paradise - A Scottish island wedding, a young woman fallen from the cliffs, and George Palmer-Jones quietly certain she did not fall.

Ann Cleeves, Prey to Murder - A woman found dead beneath a hawk's talons at a country hotel, and Molly Palmer-Jones who never quite trusted her in the first place.