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

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The engrossing plot delves into the friends' reminiscences, which seem innocuous but possess an underlying menace. The fact that Rick was recently fired from his job over allegations of sexual impropriety does not convince Annie that her notably vain friend would commit suicide and leave himself to be found naked. Any "Author Information" displayed below reflects the author's biography at the time this particular book was published. 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. Mail on Sunday Who doesn’t love ‘large and shabby’ Vera Stanhope, the blunt detective in Ann Cleeves’s Northumberland police procedurals?

The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves - Pan Macmillan The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves - Pan Macmillan

At first, it seems innocuous – just a ticking noise in your ear, which those around you can also hear. While I have no desire to read thrillers in which Covid plays a major role, watching a fictional illness spread across the world is surprisingly gripping and intriguing. Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. Later, there’d been women he’d fancied himself in love with, but there’d never been the same depth of understanding, and in the end, he’d refused to compromise. He has that nothing-to-lose attitude, given that his career is swirling down the toilet bowl anyway.Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. The Rising Tide is exactly the sort of novel she likes — it provides escape and 'the joy of loose ends tied up'. On foreign soil, “officially and legally” they cannot gather evidence, question witnesses, or make arrests. 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.

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

For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend that they lost to the rising causeway tide five years later.BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. The weight of that name – the enormous rock around his neck – pulled him to the floor, his back against the bed and his hands pressed to his mouth.