Books like The Heron's Cry by Ann Cleeves
During a rare hot summer in North Devon, tourists crowd the coastline while Detective Matthew Venn is summoned to a rural crime scene at an artists’ retreat. There, he discovers the elaborate murder of Dr. Nigel Yeo, stabbed with a shard from a broken glassblower’s vase. Yeo, a respected public servant beloved by his daughter, seems an unlikely victim. Venn is unsettled when he learns that Yeo’s daughter is close friends with Jonathan’s wife. A second body, murdered in a similar fashion, forces Venn to navigate a labyrinth of lies within his own community. In this gripping continuation of the Matthew Venn series, Ann Cleeves delivers a tense mystery that probes the secrets lurking beneath a small coastal town’s façade.
First publish date: 2021
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Ann Cleeves
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