Ann Cleves (Ann Cleeves) has been delighting readers with her mystery crime fiction since 1986. She has given us the characters Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez and Matthew Venn.
The author is in fine form with The Long Call (2019), and the summary is as follows: It’s North Devon where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea. Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father’s funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family too.
Now he’s back, not just to mourn his father at a distance, but to take charge of his first major case in the Two Rivers region; a complex place not as idyllic as tourists presume.
A body has been found on the beach near to Matthew’s new home: a man with the tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death.
Finding the killer is Venn’s only focus, and his team’s investigation will take him straight back into the community he left behind, and the deadly secrets that lurk there.
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First published 2019
400 pages in Pan paperback
ISBN 978-1-509-88956-3
Ann Cleeves