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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: Aug 2020
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British
Retail Price: $19.00
Pages: 384
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER!\r\nA USA TODAYBESTSELLER\r\nWINNER OF THE AGATHA AWARD FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY NOVEL\r\n\r\nThe Long Call from Ann Cleevesbestselling and award-winning author of theVeraandShetlandseries, both of which are hit TV showsintroduces the first in a gripping new series, told with deep compassion and searing insight.\r\n\r\n“Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers.”Louise Penny\r\n\r\nA PEOPLE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF FALL 2019\r\n\r\nIn North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father’s funeral takes place. On the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too.\r\n\r\nNow, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death.\r\n\r\nThe case calls Matthew back to the people and places of his past, as deadly secrets hidden at their hearts are revealed, and his new life is forced into a collision course with the world he thought he’d left behind.