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title: "The Sleeping and the Dead"
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# The Sleeping and the Dead

**Brand:** brand: bloody brits press
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Excellent earlier work by a superb author
  

*by W***N on Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2015*

I have read and loved all of the books in Ms Cleeves' Vera and Shetland series, and I decided to find out what she had written earlier in her career.  And I am delighted that I did.  This stand-alone mystery/thriller is terrific.  It is riveting and compelling, full of interesting people who are interesting in themselves and in their relationships with each other.  I particularly like the relationship between Hannah and Rosie, which will ring true with anyone who has lived with an adolescent daughter.Some enterprising company needs to reissue all of Ms Cleeves' early works.  I am now going to start my search for all her other books, many of them long hard to get. . . .

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Very competent, but nowhere near Cleeves' best
  

*by C***E on Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2010*

First Line: Peter Porteous walked to work.Detective Chief Inspector Peter Porteous couldn't really handle the stress of big city policing, so he moved to a small village where he could walk to work and carefully structure his life to avoid as much turmoil as possible. Unfortunately the countryside is going through a period of drought. The level of Cranwell Lake lowers to the point where a body is uncovered. Porteous soon identifies the body as that of Michael Grey, a teenager who went missing thirty years before. But instead of speeding the investigation, the identification of the body only creates more mystery.I first came to the books of Ann Cleeves through the excellent Raven Black, the first book in her Shetland Islands quartet. Then I read A Bird in the Hand, the first George and Molly Palmer-Jones mystery, and then The Crow Trap, the first Inspector Vera Stanhope mystery. I was beginning to think that Cleeves could do no wrong. And although she doesn't do much wrong in The Sleeping and the Dead, compared to her other books, this one hits a bit of a sour note.The sour note has almost everything to do with the main character, Peter Porteous. Perhaps it was a mistake to portray him as a bit of a washout from a city police force. He's a fussy man who loves to keep to a certain schedule throughout the day. He believes that overtime is unnecessary during a murder investigation, and his true sleuthing strength lies in finding the small clues and details that are buried deep in the paperwork. Not exactly exciting or particularly cerebral. Peter Porteous does know his own limitations, and he is better suited to the life of a small town copper.There's really nothing wrong with this book. The characters are well-drawn as is the setting, and the mystery does need to be unraveled. It's a very competent book, and that shows the brilliance of Ann Cleeves-- that a very "competent" book is nowhere near her best!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Good Anne Cleeves book
  

*by H***P on Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2019*

This book had a very slow start, but warmed up. I like the characters and the plot. I enjoy Anne Cleeves books, but Porteus the detective was hard to like.

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