Inspector Ramsay · Book 6
The Baby Snatcher
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 270
- ISBN-13
- 9781250413253
- Type
- novel

About this book
The Baby Snatcher closes Ann Cleeves' six-book Inspector Ramsay series, published in 1997 at 270 pages. It follows The Healers as the final entry in a series that ran from 1990.
Its place in Inspector Ramsay
The Baby Snatcher is book 6 in the Inspector Ramsay series. It follows The Healers. See the full Inspector Ramsay reading order.
Stephen Ramsay is a police inspector working the fictional Northumberland town of Otterbridge, and Ann Cleeves's first police-procedural detective, introduced in 1990 while her Palmer-Jones series was still running. Ramsay is prickly, socially awkward, and quietly working through a difficult divorce across the six novels, and Cleeves uses him to dig into the close-knit, insular communities of North East England — villages and small towns where everyone has history with everyone else, a preoccupation that runs…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250413253