See More From Book Club Friends

Sign up and log in to post, comment and join the conversation.

Book Club Friends is 100% Canadian 🇨🇦

Ann Cleeves
The Sleeping and the Dead

The Sleeping and the Dead

The Sleeping and the Dead is a tense psychological crime thriller from CWA Gold Dagger award-winning writer, Ann Cleeves.

Detective Peter Porteous is called to Cranwell Lake where the body of a teenager has been discovered. After trawling through the missing persons files, he deduces that the corpse is Michael Grey, an enigmatic and secretive young man who was reported missing by his foster parents in 1972.For country prison officer Hannah Morton it is the shock of her life. Michael had been her boyfriend, and she had been with him the night he disappeared. The news report that a body has been found brings back dreaded and long buried memories from her past…

Author: Ann Cleeves
Published: 2011
Page Count: 400

This page may include affiliate links.

Purchase on:

Amazon
Amazon

Book Club Discussion Questions For The Sleeping and the Dead

The Sleeping and the Dead
Discuss The Sleeping and the Dead With Your Book Club Friends

Do you want to take a deeper dive intoThe Sleeping and the Dead? Chat about themes, characters, settings, plots and let’s celebrate this book for our Book of the Month discussion!

Suggest The Sleeping and the Dead

More Book Club Discussions

A Better Man
A Fatal Grace
A Great Reckoning
A Rule Against Murder
A Trick of the Light
A World of Curiosities
All the Devils Are Here
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Beautiful Ugly
Bury Your Dead
Glass Houses
How the Light Gets In
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future
Iron Lake (20th Anniversary Edition)
Kingdom of the Blind
On Tyranny
State of Terror
Still Life
The Beautiful Mystery
The Boyfriend
The Briar Club
The Brutal Telling
The Crash
The Cruelest Month
The Frozen River
The Grey Wolf
The Housemaid
The Life We Bury
The Long Way Home
The Madness of Crowds
The Mighty Red
The Nature of the Beast
The River We Remember
The Rose Code
The Searcher
The Thursday Murder Club
See All Discussions

Highly Recommended Books by Ann Cleeves Book Club Friends

Lethal Prey
Disappearance of a Scribe
Short Story: The MatchUp Collection
The Body in the Castle Well
The Red Door
Silhouette in Scarlet: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense
So Shall You Reap
Killing Season: A Thriller
Blow Fly
Empress of the Seven Hills
Midnight Tango
Deadly Stakes
The Rags of Time: A DC Smith Investigation
Back Spin
Final Assignment
The Blood Doctor
Bad Love
To Love and Be Wise
The Marco Effect
Evan Blessed
Playing With Fire
The Imposter: A Mike Bowditch Short Mystery
Suffer the Little Children
The Cliff's Edge
The Sixth Man
Redemption
Morality for Beautiful Girls
Skin and Bones: A Mike Bowditch Short Mystery
The Hollows
A Treacherous Curse
Safe Harbour
Tomb of the Golden Bird
No Mark Upon Her
Hot to Trot: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
The Evidence Exposed
The Great Deceiver
Seven Up
A Breach of Security
Kissing Christmas Goodbye
Precious and Grace
A River in the Sky
The Mist
Swing
The Man Who Died Twice
Next to Last Stand: A Longmire Mystery
Bad Boy: An Inspector Banks Novel
Royal Blood
Down Among the Dead Men
To Darkness and to Death
A Christmas Resolution: A Novel
A Cold Heart: An Alex Delaware Novel
Just a Little Bit Dangerous
S is for Silence
Losing You
Up Jumps the Devil
Hermit's Peak
A Gambling Man
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
The Mercedes Coffin
Street of the Five Moons: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense
Baltimore Blues
The Pact: A Kate Burkholder Short Mystery
Hellbender: A Novella
Stay Close
Eye of the Wolf
The Surgeon: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
Dead to Rights
Surfacing
The Girl of His Dreams
The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers
Death of a Gentle Lady
Under the Streets of Nice: The Bank Heist of the Century
Tall Oaks
The Fourth Sacrifice
Invitation to Die: A Short Story of Falco's Rome
Our Lady of Pain: An Edwardian Murder Mystery
A Body in the Bathhouse
Mistress of Rome
Christmas Crumble: An Agatha Raisin Short Story
Find You First
The God of the Hive
Voices of Rome
Bitterroot
An East End Murder: A Charles Lennox Short Story
Southampton Row
Trial by Fire
The Stolen Queen
Partner in Crime
The Dark Wind
First Family
A Pale Horse
Away with the Fairies
The Shape of Night
Broken Fields
What Child Is This
Blue on Black
Speaking from Among the Bones
Hard Eight
Night over Water
A Twist of Fortune
Death Song
The Last Voice You Hear
Lightning Strike
Straight into Darkness
The Book Thing
Death of a Cad
Pretty Girls: A Novel
The 6:20 Man
Watching the Dark: An Inspector Banks Novel
Blood Test
Bertie and the Seven Bodies
Water Like a Stone
False Prophet: A Decker/Lazarus Novel
The Resistance Man
The Angel Court Affair
The God of the Woods
Unnatural Death
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
The Ape who Guards the Balance
Trigger Mortis
A Line to Kill
The Templars' Last Secret
A Gathering of Secrets
Racing the Devil
Death Row
The Painted Queen
The Stranger Diaries
The Gifted
206 Bones
Union Jack
The Disappeared
The Best Man to Die
Kick Back
The Shadow Side
The Big Gamble
No Time for Goodbye
Framed in Fire
Beastly Things
Send Bygraves
Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death
Splinter the Silence
Messenger of Truth
Bluegate Fields
Death of a Policeman
A Thief of Time
Bloodstream
Murder on the Short List
A Christmas Promise: A Novel
Revenge of the Stormbringer
The Bounty
Cause of Death
Nothing to Lose
Dancing with Demons
Crack Down
The Ghost Fields
All That Glitters: A Sgt. Windflower Mystery
Blood Lure
The Tale Teller
Bad Actors
Time and Tide: A DC Smith Investigation
Death with a Double Edge
Pitch Dark
Behind Closed Doors
Dust
Blue Labyrinth
Light of the World
Curious Minds
The Joy and Light Bus Company
Snobbery with Violence
Six Years
The Book of the Dead
Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha
Stranded
K is for Killer
What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust
Dark Angel
Death of a Witch
Golden Prey
Long Bright River
Elevator Pitch
Monster: An Alex Delaware Novel
Mourn Not Your Dead
Death in the Cards
Now May You Weep
The Summons
In League with Sherlock Holmes
Booked for Murder
Thursday's Children
The Tick of Death
Strange Affair: An Inspector Banks Novel
The Critic
No Honor Among Thieves
Three-Day Town
Shimura Trouble
Sunburn
Blood Ties
The Searcher
Knots and Crosses
Queen of the Night
By a Spider's Thread
The Devil's Seal
The Crying Child
Fugitive Colors
A Sight for Sore Eyes
Capital Crimes: A Novel
Case Histories
The Cabinet of Dr. Leng
Castle Shade
Red Mist
The Dirty Duck
Cell
Sudden Prey
In Sunshine or in Shadow
The House of Unexpected Sisters
The Janus Stone
With Child
Dear Penthouse Forum
Queen of the Flowers
Chinese Whispers
Locked In
Three to Get Deadly
A Distant View of Everything
Now You See Them
The Shattered Tree
Dust: A Richard Jury Mystery
Ward D
The Mysterious North
The Horse You Came in On
Fire and Bones
Stone Kiss
The Hunting Party
Cold
Acceptable Loss: A William Monk Novel
Grasshopper
Desert Star
A Darker Domain
To Kill a Troubadour
The Green Mill Murder
The Shadows in the Street
R is for Ricochet
Two for Texas
Luck and Judgement: A DC Smith Investigation
I is for Innocent
Killer Market
The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2024
Hid from Our Eyes
Bone Box: A Decker/Lazarus Novel
The Evening and the Morning
Dark Corners
Nothing But Trouble
The Spiteful Shadow
Killing Tide: A Brittany Mystery
The Château Murder
A Noise Downstairs
Evan Help Us
Mary Russell's War: And Other Stories of Suspense
Fear the Worst
Standing in the Shadows
Liberty Falling
King Solomon's Carpet
The Man in Black and Other Stories
The Lair of the White Fox
Rock Paper Scissors
I Shall Not Want
The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax
Agatha Raisin and The Case of the Curious Curate
The Laughing Buddha: Malachai Samuels vs. D.D. Warren
Wings of Fire
The Curse of the Pharaohs
Blue Lightning
Vanish: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
Dark Saturday
A Hero to Hold
The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel
The Right Thing to Do
The Pearl Diver
Never Flinch: A Novel
Love and Death Among the Cheetahs
The Husband's Secret
Look Alive Twenty-Five
Smoke and Mirrors
Angel of Vengeance
The Wheel of Darkness
The Ghost Marriage
To Fear a Painted Devil
The Secrets of the Bastide Blanche
Beau Death
Uncharted Waters
Swan Peak
The Sins of the Wolf: A William Monk Novel
N is for Noose
A Taint in the Blood
Dark Assassin: A William Monk Novel
For the Sake of the Game
The Hit
The Iron Hand of Mars
Image in the Lake
Kingdom of the Blind
Slow Horses
About Face