Description
Product ID: | 9781509889600 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Two Rivers |
Title: | The Long Call |
Subtitle: | Now a major ITV series starring Ben Aldridge as Detective Matthew Venn |
Authors: | Author: Ann Cleeves |
Page Count: | 400 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime and mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Crime & mystery, Thriller / suspense, Devon |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Sunday Times bestselling author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope series, Ann Cleeves returns with the first in a series set in North Devon and featuring Detective Matthew Venn. In this rural idyll, where two rivers meet, crime is always there waiting to rise from the water. <p><b>Meet Detective Matthew Venn. From Ann Cleeves, the <i>Sunday Times </i>bestselling creator of Vera and Shetland, <i>The Long Call </i>is the No.1 bestselling first novel in the Two Rivers series.<br><br>Now a major ITV series, <i>The Long Call</i>, starring Ben Aldridge.</b><br><br>In 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.<br><br>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 quite as idyllic as tourists suppose.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><b>'A stunning debut for Cleeves’ latest crimefighter' – David Baldacci, author of <i>The 6:20 Man<br><br>The Long Call </i>is the first entry in the Two Rivers series. Continue the mysteries with <i>The Heron's Cry</i>.</b></p> |
Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-02-20 |