[book:The Long Call| Last month we had the wonderful Ann Cleeves visit Wirral Libraries.
It therefore seems fitting that our first librarian 📖 BOOK REVIEW 📖 is Ann Cleeves - The Long Call
The Long Call By Ann Cleeves
The first book of a new series, The Two Rivers, by the author of the Vera and Shetland books as seen on TV
DC Matthew Venn has returned to North Devon to take charge of his first major murder case. A man’s body has been found on Crow Point beach where two rivers converge and run into the sea. He grew up here, and his mother still lives here, but the novel opens with Matthew watching the funeral of his father, whose death he read about in the local newspaper. His parents were religious and he was not. As he discovered, estrangement from the church also meant estrangement from his family…
As we know from her previous books, Ann Cleeves is a writer who brilliantly evokes a landscape and the communities that live there. Her North Devon is a place not only of tourists, cafés and chocolate box houses, but also of those left behind: migrant families and homeless people. Venn’s murder investigations lead him into both of those worlds and how a crisis fuels suspicions on both sides
Venn is a native, born in this place, but he’s also an outsider. Along with his sidekicks, Liverpudlian DS Jen Rafferty and local man Ross May he investigates a murder which literally, comes very close to home
Already snapped up for a future television series, The Long Call will surely be the first of a very successful series of future novels
It therefore seems fitting that our first librarian 📖 BOOK REVIEW 📖 is Ann Cleeves - The Long Call
The Long Call By Ann Cleeves
The first book of a new series, The Two Rivers, by the author of the Vera and Shetland books as seen on TV
DC Matthew Venn has returned to North Devon to take charge of his first major murder case. A man’s body has been found on Crow Point beach where two rivers converge and run into the sea. He grew up here, and his mother still lives here, but the novel opens with Matthew watching the funeral of his father, whose death he read about in the local newspaper. His parents were religious and he was not. As he discovered, estrangement from the church also meant estrangement from his family…
As we know from her previous books, Ann Cleeves is a writer who brilliantly evokes a landscape and the communities that live there. Her North Devon is a place not only of tourists, cafés and chocolate box houses, but also of those left behind: migrant families and homeless people. Venn’s murder investigations lead him into both of those worlds and how a crisis fuels suspicions on both sides
Venn is a native, born in this place, but he’s also an outsider. Along with his sidekicks, Liverpudlian DS Jen Rafferty and local man Ross May he investigates a murder which literally, comes very close to home
Already snapped up for a future television series, The Long Call will surely be the first of a very successful series of future novels