![]() ![]() Several years later, ITV television producer Elaine Collins was poking around her local London charity shop bookshelf, on the hunt for a strong detective character and series to replace television’s popular A Touch of Frost which was winding up its nearly 20-year run. ![]() ![]() Raven Black’s success prompted her to expand that novel first to a quartet, and then to an ongoing series featuring Shetland Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez. In 2006, Cleeves’s Raven Black, a police procedural set in remote Shetland that was originally intended to be a standalone novel, won the Crime Writers’ Association Duncan Lawrie Dagger for the best crime novel of the year the prize money of £20,000 spurred Cleeves to quit her day job-she was working at a library in Yorkshire at the time, but has also held jobs as a cook, a probation officer and an auxiliary coastguard-and write full-time. Two key events transformed Ann Cleeves’s career from prolific, mid-list author-she’s published a crime novel a year since 1986-to bestselling writer with two concurrent and popular television series based on her books airing on both sides of the Atlantic. ![]()
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