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

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Although there is quite the pack of characters in this one, Cleeves works her magic and keeps Vera's intuitive nature at the forefront. This fair-play mystery brims with fully developed suspects and motives that are hidden in plain sight.

Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends are hiding, and whether the events of many years before could have led to murder then, and now . This kind of trite contrarianism in writing about sexual harassment and assault is so tiresome and lame and sad. I tried to slow down my reading because who knows when or if there will be another Vera book but I couldn't control myself.There’s a swathe of clues to go through, and false starts, overlayed by the sense of time and Hector’s bits of nonsense bullying Vera from the grave. It wasn't very interesting and if not for the obligation I felt having been given early access on NetGalley from the publisher, I wouldn't have finished the book. In 1987 Tim, Ann and their two daughters moved to Northumberland and the north east provides the inspiration for many of her subsequent titles.

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. 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. A foggy atmosphere that seems to manipulate both time and dimension obscures allegiances between local people who are deeply bound by the gravitational pull of their shared secrets, a group of old schoolmates’ with a seeming inability to transform itself. Selbst, wenn Veras Mitarbeiter den Verdacht hegen, dass die Chefin bereits wüsste, wer der Täter ist, mag der Leser noch völlig falsch liegen.Who doesn't love "large and shabby" Vera Stanhope, the blunt detective in Ann Cleeves's Northumberland police procedurals? Second, I am finding the author’s descriptions of Vera’s body (over the entire course of the series) to be extremely tiresome. The TV series and the books they are based on have become international sensations, capturing the minds of millions worldwide.