Frozen
- Published
- 1 January 2020
- Pages
- 16
- ISBN-13
- 9781250800718
- Type
- short
About this book
Frozen (2020) is a short, 16-page e-story sitting between The Seagull and The Darkest Evening in the Vera Stanhope timeline -- one of two optional standalone extras Ann Cleeves published alongside the numbered novels, alongside The Woman on the Island (2022).
Key facts about Frozen
Frozen is a short story by Ann Cleeves. Readers have had it since 2020. It runs to 16 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Frozen. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781250800718 to find the main one.
Frozen is book 9 of 13 in the Vera Stanhope series. The series has 13 published books. However, the series starts with The Crow Trap (1999). The Dark Wives is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 27 August 2024.
Additionally, Ann Cleeves writes George and Molly Palmer-Jones, Inspector Ramsay and Shetland, plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our cozy mystery, police procedural and mystery shelves. Meanwhile, The Killing Stones is the latest published Ann Cleeves book on file, from 7 October 2025.
About Ann Cleeves
Ann Cleeves is an English crime writer whose atmospheric, character-driven procedurals are rooted in remote, weather-beaten landscapes she has often lived in herself. Early jobs cooking at a Fair Isle bird observatory and, later, years spent on the tidal, no-electricity Hilbre Island fed directly into her fiction. See every Ann Cleeves book in order.
Its place in Vera Stanhope
Frozen is book 9 in the Vera Stanhope series. It follows The Seagull. It is followed by The Darkest Evening. See the full Vera Stanhope reading order.
DI Vera Stanhope is a rumpled, overweight, prickly detective working the Northumberland coast, and one of British crime fiction's most deliberately unglamorous protagonists: no tortured backstory played for sex appeal, no maverick charm, just a lonely, socially awkward woman who is very good at reading people precisely because she's spent a lifetime being underestimated by them. Ann Cleeves built the series around procedural rigor grounded in real police work and a strong sense of place — the bleak, beautiful…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250800718