The Sleeping and the Dead

By Ann Cleeves

Book Overview

In this 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 Cranwell Lake where the body of a teenager has been discovered. After trawling through the missing persons files, he comes to the conclusion that the corpse is Michael Grey, an enigmatic and secretive young man who was reported missing by his foster parents in 1972.

The news report that a body has been found leaves prison officer Hannah Morton in shock. Michael had been her boyfriend, and she had been with him the night he disappeared. And now the discovery is bringing back dreaded and long buried memories from her past . . .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250391660
• ISBN13: 9781250391667
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Better than RAVEN BLACK

This book was excellent, I read it because Raven Black was such a good book. This book was even better, can't wait to read the authors second book in the Shetland Islands series! Hope Ann Cleeves also writes another book with the same characters as in this book.

Excellent read

I'm new to Ann Cleeves, having finished and loved Raven Black. I picked this up while waiting for her next in that series, and was very glad that I did so. This is a tense, fascinating character study that never forgets to interconnect the various strands of the mysteries together, while keeping the readers' interest throughout. The point of view shifts between protaganists at just the right times. I enjoyed the detective thoroughly and hope to encounter him again, though am not sure Ms. Cleeves kept up with thim. It is a refreshing change from standard American police procedurals - readers will be richly rewarded.

British mystery at its finest.

Cleeves fills this book with captivating British characters. A dead body that has been in the lake for 30 years, a prison librarian, a rebellious daughter all entwined in the mystery surrounding the body. This book was hard to put down, I finished it in one reading. Lots of surprises.