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The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope)

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The Holy Island is an island only when the tide covers the causeway; indeed, trying to drive through the water caused Isobel’s death all those years ago. Mayo spools out his many twists and turns skilfully, as the hospitals overflow and things get worse and worse for poor Kit and Rose. translated by Alex Valente, tells of another tiny Italian community, Cave, where terrible things have also happened. The Darkest Evening reminds us that the novels are richer, fuller, and more satisfying than any episode of television can be…[Cleeves] is a master of the genre and if anything has gained a step over the years.

THE RISING TIDE | Kirkus Reviews THE RISING TIDE | Kirkus Reviews

He has that nothing-to-lose attitude, given that his career is swirling down the toilet bowl anyway.

Even if Philip had been closer, he might not have made out what was being said, because there was a storm blowing and the wind would have carried the words away. Sue Keller, whose mother died when she was a child, is drifting through life in New York after the recent death of her father.

The Rising Tide: A Vera Stanhope Novel (Vera Stanhope, 10) The Rising Tide: A Vera Stanhope Novel (Vera Stanhope, 10)

His crime spreads its tentacles throughout the novel, but Varvello is more interested in exploring its fallout – how his mother has never been able to move on, driven to despair by her son’s actions; how his father has struggled to survive; what it’s done to his older sisters. Ann Cleeves is on top form in this atmospheric mystery that gradually expands to include more shifty characters on the mainland, and, on her tenth outing, you feel the pain beneath Vera’s blowsy bravado. Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U.

They first came to the island on a school trip organized by a young teacher hoping to "challenge their preconceptions" on "a kind of secular retreat. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends are hiding, and whether the events of many years before could have led to murder then, and now . Pietro, the father, finds a notebook filled with his daughter’s handwriting, her brother’s name scrawled repeatedly on the page. It was as inevitable as the water, which twice a day slid across the sand and mud of the shore until the causeway was covered. A pinwheeling third-person narrative drives the pace, while Vera’s candor tempers the plot’s darker elements.

The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves | Waterstones

He tried not to resent the squabbling children and the wealthy elderly, but he was always pleased when the island was quiet.Had her death at the first reunion bonded them together so tightly that, despite their differences, they were as close as family?

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