Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2022
The Heron's Cry is the second novel in Ann Cleeves'Two Rivers following her Sunday Times bestseller,The Long Call.
North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder - Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed. His daughter Eve is a glassblower,and the murder weapon is a shard of one of her broken vases.
Dr Yeo seems an unlikely murder victim. He's a good man,a public servant,beloved by his daughter. Matthew is unnerved though to find that she is a close friend of Jonathan,his husband.
Then another body is found - killed in a similar way. Matthew finds himself treading carefully through the lies that fester at the heart of his community and a case that is dangerously close to home ...
Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9781509889709Number of pages: 400Weight: 293 gDimensions: 196 x 130 x 28 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Matthew Venn is a keeper. A stunning debut for Cleeves'latest crimefighter'- David Baldacci on The Long Call
'Had me hooked - a promising beginning to another fine chapter in the Ann Cleeves story'-The Times on The Long Call
Ann Cleeves
Ann Cleeves is a British crime writer,best known for her Shetland and Vera Stanhope series of police procedural novels. Her latest novel is The Long Call.
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