new and existing fans will be pleased.' -Publishers Weekly intricate plotting, complex characters, and rich atmosphere. This character-driven exploration of people’s darkest flaws is a sterling example of Cleeves’ formidable talents.' -Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) 'In her follow-up to The Long Call (2019), Cleeves provides a complex mystery full of surprises. well-plotted novel of unremitting suspense.” -Wall Street Journal The books never get too dark, never venture too far into dangerous territory, but aren’t outright cozy, either.”- The New York Times “A friend of mine once joked that the work of Ann Cleeves is the closest the crime fiction genre comes to evoking ASMR-the euphoric, pleasant, spine-tingling sensation that’s all the rage on YouTube.

Superstition and rumor mix with fact as another body is found, and Venn finds his judgment clouded.Īs the winds howl, and Venn and his team investigate, he realizes that no one, including himself, is safe from Scully Cove’s storm of dark secrets. Greystone is a place he visited as a child, a community he parted ways with. This is an uncomfortable case for Detective Inspector Matthew Venn. But just as abruptly as he arrived, Rosco disappears again, and soon his lifeless body is discovered in a dinghy, anchored off Scully Cove, a place with legends of its own. When Jem Rosco-sailor, adventurer, and legend-blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity in their midst. Ann Cleeves- New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows-returns with the extraordinary third in the Two Rivers series.įierce winds, dark secrets, deadly intentions.

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