Offshore: A short story collection Read online

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  By Ann Cleeves

  A Bird in the Hand

  Come Death and High Water

  Murder in Paradise

  A Prey to Murder

  A Lesson in Dying

  Murder in My Backyard

  A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy

  Another Man’s Poison

  Killjoy

  The Mill on the Shore

  Sea Fever

  The Healers

  High Island Blues

  The Baby-Snatcher

  The Sleeping and the Dead

  Burial of Ghosts

  The Vera Stanhope series

  The Crow Trap

  Telling Tales

  Hidden Depths

  Silent Voices

  The Glass Room

  Harbour Street

  The Shetland series

  Raven Black

  White Nights

  Red Bones

  Blue Lightning

  Dead Water

  Thin Air

  ‘The Secrets of Soil’ written in collaboration with forensic soil scientist Lorna Dawson. First read by Lesley Hart in front of an audience at the Bloody Scotland festival in Stirling, and broadcast on Radio 4 on Sunday 22 September 2013

  ‘The Spinster’ first published in OxCrimes, Profile Books, May 2014

  ‘The Soothmoothers’ first broadcast on 30 April 2010 at 3.30pm, as part of Radio 4’s Red Herrings series

  ‘Postcard from Skokholm’ by Lynne Chitty, winning entry to Bello competition 2013

  Extract from Thin Air first published by Macmillan and copyright © Ann Cleeves 2014

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  ISBN 978-1-4472-7662-3

  Collection copyright © Ann Cleeves 2014

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