The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope)

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The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope)

The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope)

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S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Harry Vance slips out of his lover’s bed for a mysterious nighttime meeting. The Rising Tide is classic Cleeves: an atmospheric, gripping police procedural in which the environment is as deadly as the desperate murderer . The Rising Tide is published in the UK by Pan Macmillan: the hardback was published on 1st September 2022 (ISBN: 978-1-5098-8961-7), and the paperback on 16th March 2023 (978-1-5098-8965-5). Almost, he hoped that there would be no afterlife; surely that would take energy and there were days now when he felt that he had no energy left. 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.

The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves | Waterstones The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves | Waterstones

The Sunday Times Who doesn’t love ‘large and shabby’ Vera Stanhope, the blunt detective in Ann Cleeves’s Northumberland police procedurals? On foreign soil, “officially and legally” they cannot gather evidence, question witnesses, or make arrests. Her vehicle had been swept from the causeway in the high tide of the equinox, tossed from the road like a toy by the wind and the waves. 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. This year would mark fifty years of friendship and he needed to offer a prayer of thanks and to remember.

The partners deliver a few punchlines of their own in this fast-moving story that’s replete with twists and danger.

The Rising Tide: (Vera Stanhope) by Ann Cleeves | WHSmith The Rising Tide: (Vera Stanhope) by Ann Cleeves | WHSmith

Vera--blunt, intelligent, frumpy and obsessive yet deeply affectionate toward her team--continues to prove her investigative mettle. Fortunately, Kit’s partner, Lilly, is a brilliant vaccinologist and she starts investigating the origins of this mysterious plague. He has that nothing-to-lose attitude, given that his career is swirling down the toilet bowl anyway. 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.Now, after a night of drinking and reliving the past, Annie, long divorced from Daniel, finds Rick’s body hanging in his room. A visit with Vera--whether in the series or via the television adaptation, now in its 11th season--is always welcome. 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. The low sunlight of autumn was flooding through the plain glass windows into the building, but he knew he had time for more reflection – more guilt? Here he sat, hands clasped and eyes shut, waiting for his friends, longing again for the connection and the ease that only they could give, pondering the moment of Isobel’s death.



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