The Rising Tide: A dark, atmospheric mystery from bestseller Ann Cleeves, featuring Vera Stanhope, star of ITV's Vera

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Ann worked as a probation officer, bird observatory cook, and auxiliary coastguard before she started writing. They revisit to celebrate their friendship and remember the friend that they lost in the rising waters of the causeway when they were first here. Although there are certainly present-day reasons why someone might have killed Rick, Vera and her team do a deep dive into the past and find an unexpected motive.

The Rising Tide: A dark, atmospheric mystery from bestseller The Rising Tide: A dark, atmospheric mystery from bestseller

Vera Stanhope is one of the literary world’s most realistic detectives… This just might be my favorite Vera book, at least thus far. Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc. From Ann Cleeves - New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows - comes the stunning tenth Vera Stanhope novel, The Rising Tide, a powerful novel about guilt, betrayal, and the longheld secrets people keep.Pietro, the father, finds a notebook filled with his daughter’s handwriting, her brother’s name scrawled repeatedly on the page.

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If, like me, you were joyfully terrified by The Hand That Rock s the Cradle (starring Rebecca De Mornay) in the 1990s, then this is the thriller for you. It seemed to him now that he’d spent the rest of his life trying to find relationships that were as intense and fulfilling as those developed here. But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M. Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U. He’d been in his first-floor room in the Pilgrims’ House looking down, an observer, not a participant.Cleeves crafts a clever central puzzle, then confers remarkable emotional complexity using her keenly drawn characters’ advancing age, wistful nostalgia, and thorny shared history. His working life moved to the beat of funeral services, the tolling of the church bell, the march of pall-bearers. He closed his eyes again to remember Isobel and that argument which must surely have led to her death. In bestseller Cleeves’s melancholy 10th Vera Stanhope novel (after 2020’s The Darkest Evening), sexagenarians Rick Kelsall, Annie Laidler, and two other old friends reunite at the tidal island convent-turned-guesthouse where they met as teens during a school retreat. The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs.