The Mill on the Shore, Ann Cleeves
The Mill on the Shore, Ann Cleeves
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The Mill on the Shore
A George & Molly Palmer-Jones Novel

Author: Ann Cleeves

Series: George & Molly Palmer-Jones Series #7

Narrator: Sean Barrett

Unabridged: 7 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/06/2026


Synopsis

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community—now available for the first time in the US.

Meg Morrissey refuses to believe that her husband James committed suicide. James was in high spirits after he’d finally completed his long-awaited autobiography. He didn’t leave a suicide note. But even more suspicious: the record of his life’s environmental achievement, his magnum opus, has gone missing.

Troubled, Meg calls in amateur sleuths George and Molly Palmer-Jones to investigate. They soon uncover that life in the Morrissey family is not as idyllic as it seems—relations with James’ ex-wife Cathy are not as friendly as Meg makes them out and James appears to have fallen for another women. But the disappearance of his autobiography is most puzzling of all—did he uncover a secret so damaging that someone was prepared to kill for it?

George and Molly must try to fit together the missing pieces of information to reveal who could have wanted James dead . . .

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.

About Ann Cleeves

ANN CLEEVES is the multi-million copy bestselling author behind three hit television series—Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall, Vera, starring Academy Award Nominee Brenda Blethyn, and The Long Call, starring Ben Aldridge—all of which are watched and loved in the United States. All three are available on BritBox.The first Shetland novel, Raven Black, won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for best crime novel, and Ann was awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger in 2017. She was awarded the OBE in 2022 for services to reading and libraries. Ann lives in the United Kingdom.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sue on October 08, 2021

A decent mystery, interesting setting, but somehow, boring. Although I never guessed who-done-it, there wasn't any real tension in the novel.......more

Goodreads review by Kirsty (BookBlogger) on November 21, 2023

The Mill on the Shore by Ann Cleeves Blurb When Jimmy Morrissey, England's celebrated conservation conscience, kills himself with an overdose of antidepressants, the whole country mourns with his grieving widow. But private investigators Molly and George Palmer-Jones are convinced that what looks like......more

Goodreads review by Emily on December 14, 2022

Not one of her better books. This was another George and Molly Palmer Jones mystery. A famous BBC conservationist dies due to apparent suicide. His widow is not satisfied with the suicide verdict and calls in George to look into the case. Although it turns out that her motives were less than pure. I......more

Goodreads review by Ken on June 27, 2014

Very good, very British murder mystery. Cleeves is a worthy successor to the Agatha Christie tradition. Molly and George Palmer-Jones are similar, I think, to Mrs. Marple. They are unorthodox detectives, but they get results. And the plot is so full of false trails, you won't even guess whether or n......more