Once the interviews with the suspects lessen, the story picks up briskly, with many unexpected reveals, twists and turns, and a big shock near the end. Vera is all too excited when she is informed of a 'suicide' on the beautiful and windswept Holy Island, she is desperate for it to be a murder and acts accordingly, one should be careful what one wishes for. They gather together for a hearty evening meal with plenty of alcohol and discuss memories and their present lives. The plot thickens nicely when closer examination reveals that the apparent suicide is murder and a few more suspects on the mainland are thrown into the mix.

Vera's tenacity and determination to solve the two present murders and expose events 50 years earlier have led herself and her two detectives into mortal danger. Ann Cleeves's latest DI Vera Stanhope is a chilling and shocker of an addition to her wonderful Northumberland set series. The obvious suspects are the reunion participants followed by Rick's supervisors, co-workers, acquaintances, and so on.The island is atmospheric backdrop for the story with its ruins and religious history, landscape and wildlife and the shifting tides that make the causeway so dangerous to those who don’t pay attention to the them, and plays a very central and tragic part of the novel. Dieser Kriminalroman von Ann Cleeves ist der aktuellste Krimi in der Reihe um Vera Stanhope, die sehr erfolgreich vom britischen Fernsehen verfilmt wurde. Rick is a celebrity journalist recently fired after an intern complained that he sexually assaulted her. Sadly, tragedy struck the reunion event when Isobel's car was caught by a high tide and she drowned. I enjoy mysteries-with-more (the more being strong, well-developed characters) – and this series definitely fills that bill, although this one (until the twist at the end) really just tread familiar ground.

Vera is a star of a protagonist, overweight, with a shambolic appearance that has her giving off the vibes of a bag lady, and here she is mistaken as a cleaner, not that it bothers her in the slightest. Vera and her team start to investigate and try to figure out what each one of the friend's group is hiding and who has the strongest motive! Ann's success was announced at the 2006 Dagger Awards ceremony at the Waldorf Hilton, in London's Aldwych, on Thursday 29 June 2006. After dropping out of university she took a number of temporary jobs - child care officer, women's refuge leader, bird observatory cook, auxiliary coastguard - before going back to college and training to be a probation officer.Vera and her team interview and re-interview people who knew Rick and some surprising secrets are unearthed. By the time of the first reunion - when the participants were in their early twenties - Rick and Charlotte were married, and Annie and Daniel were married and mourning the recent loss of an infant.

The rising and waning tides impose a parenthetical relationship upon both residents and the dwindling swell of tourists to the historic Holy Island of Lindisfarne in October. Although the story is written with multiple points of view, it is Annie, the organizer and mainstay, who is the principal of the secondary characters and the one with the greatest depth of character—“The years, stretching ahead of her, seemed empty, devoid of light or fun. When the group were still in their early 20s and at their very first five-year reunion, one of their members perished in the dangerous waters that surround the island. The mystery was also a little sub-par this time around in my opinion, and the ending was heartbreaking.

If you've nar read this Newcastle (the toon) / Northumberland based series, eeee, howay man, you should because it’s canny and champion.