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The Sleeping and the Dead (Hardcover)

by Ann Cleeves (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Macmillan (12 Oct 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0333906489
  • ISBN-13: 978-0333906484
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,076,410 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A vivid psychological suspense novel A diving instructor makes a gruesome discovery in Cranwell Lake - the body of a teenager who has clearly been in the water for many years. Detective Peter Porteous is called to the scene. After trailling through the missing persons files, he deduces that the corpse is Michael Grey, an enigmatic and secretive young man who was reported missing by his foster parents in 1972. As the police investigation gets under way in Cranwell, on the other side of the country prison officer Hannah Morton is about to get the shock of her life. For Michael was her boyfriend, and she was with him the night he disappeared. The news report that a body has been found brings back dreaded and long buried memories from her past...


About the Author

Ann Cleeves lives near Whitley Bay. She is best known for her Inspector Ramsay novels, set in the Northumberland she knows so well.

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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Ann Cleeves - This is as good as British crime writing gets, 17 Sep 2002
By John Baker (York, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Sleeping and the Dead (Paperback)
Hannah Morton is a single mum who works as a prison librarian; she lives with her teenage daughter Rosie, who will be going to university next year.
But thirty years ago, Hannah's boyfriend went missing and now he's turned up again, dead at the bottom of a lake with a chain around his ankles.
Ann Cleeves, in this latest offering, gives us everything required of a good crime novel. The plotting is tense and intricate and the characterization, especially of Hannah and Rosie, is rivetting. Add to that a conscious avoidence of cliche and a narrative approach which makes this author a stylist of distinction, and you will begin to understand why I found it very difficult to put this book down.
The Sleeping and the Dead is as good as British crime writing gets, and that includes all-comers, old and young on the contemporary scene.
Buy it now. You won't be disappointed.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars well worth a read!, 11 Oct 2003
By C. Fisher "Claire" (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Sleeping and the Dead (Paperback)
to me the back of this book was enough to make me want this excellent novel. I bought it as part of my quest to try new authors. It takes a little to get into this book but generally it has all the makings of a really good read! Hanna Morton is a librarian in a prison and has forgotten the secrets of her past until a body is found in her old home town which is her ex boyfriend "michael" she was the last person to see him alive. This book takes you through her current life and through her life as a teenager when she knew michael.
It is cleverly written and gives you a surprise at the end.
worth reading!
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2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A great read!, 16 Feb 2006
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This review is from: The Sleeping and the Dead (Paperback)
This was really good fun to read. The way the story was brought together at the end was a little too coincidental to be realistic, but this is escapism!
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