Ann Cleeves
Simon Mayo's Books of the Year
Bauer Media
4.9 • 994 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Ann Cleeves - crime novelist, library advocate and creator of best-loved characters Vera Stanhope, Matthew Venn and Jimmy Perez - joins Simon and Matt for a natter about her latest novel, 'The Killing Stones'.
This new Jimmy Perez mystery is perfect for this time of year - and we can highly recommend you get a copy and curl up under a blanket over Christmas and enjoy it.
Ann chats about getting bored with Jimmy (and then liking him again), her love of Orkney and Shetland, the Kirkwall Ba and why she won't ever kill off one of her main characters.
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| 1:11.6 | And obviously, what with it being Christmas and everything, this will be our penultimate pod before we take a little break over the festive period. |
| 1:18.0 | I think we've had a cracking year. |
| 1:19.8 | We have, yeah. We've had a good few cracking years, but some great titles come out this year. |
| 1:25.0 | So there's plenty to look back on. |
| 1:26.3 | What would be your favourite? |
| 1:29.0 | So I've been pretty vocal about The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepard Robinson, who we had on. |
| 1:35.9 | That has been, I've read a lot of books this year, and that is standing head and shoulders. |
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