Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. His working life moved to the beat of funeral services, the tolling of the church bell, the march of pall-bearers.

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Second in the military crime series featuring Special Agents Scott Brodie and Magnolia "Maggie" Taylor, after The Deserter (2019). 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 . The Rising Tide is classic Cleeves: an atmospheric, gripping police procedural in which the environment is as deadly as the desperate murderer . The engrossing plot delves into the friends' reminiscences, which seem innocuous but possess an underlying menace.Vera Stanhope is one of the literary world’s most realistic detectives… This just might be my favorite Vera book, at least thus far.

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Pietro, the father, finds a notebook filled with his daughter’s handwriting, her brother’s name scrawled repeatedly on the page. If one of the women who’d shared that first weekend of connection had been free, perhaps that would have worked. He’d been in his first-floor room in the Pilgrims’ House looking down, an observer, not a participant. Fans will enjoy matching wits with Cleeves’ eccentric sleuth right up to the dangerous surprise in her denouement. The low sunlight of autumn was flooding through the plain glass windows into the building, but he knew he had time for more reflection – more guilt?Vera--blunt, intelligent, frumpy and obsessive yet deeply affectionate toward her team--continues to prove her investigative mettle. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs.

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The Sunday Times Who doesn’t love ‘large and shabby’ Vera Stanhope, the blunt detective in Ann Cleeves’s Northumberland police procedurals? They bonded on that first trip, but what may have really brought them together was the death of Isobel, one of their number, at their first reunion five years later. Ann worked as a probation officer, bird observatory cook and auxiliary coastguard before she started writing. It seemed to him now that he’d spent the rest of his life trying to find relationships that were as intense and fulfilling as those developed here. Ann also spends her time advocating for reading to improve health and wellbeing and supporting access to books.Ann Cleeves is on top form in this atmospheric mystery that gradually expands to include more shifty characters on the mainland, and, on her tenth outing, you feel the pain beneath Vera’s blowsy bravado. Here he sat, hands clasped and eyes shut, waiting for his friends, longing again for the connection and the ease that only they could give, pondering the moment of Isobel’s death. At first, Sue doesn’t recognise her, but then the memories come flooding back and she finds herself desperate to cling on to this woman who represents a part of her vanished childhood. The partners deliver a few punchlines of their own in this fast-moving story that’s replete with twists and danger.

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They can’t quite believe it when rumours start to spread that he has been breaking into his neighbours’ homes and stealing things.

And there had been a connection, so strong and fierce that after fifty years the tie was still there, unbroken and still worth celebrating. If, like me, you were joyfully terrified by The Hand That Rock s the Cradle (starring Rebecca De Mornay) in the 1990s, then this is the thriller for you. He has that nothing-to-lose attitude, given that his career is swirling down the toilet bowl anyway. Rick may have lost his BBC hosting gig over sexual misconduct allegations, but he recently signed a lucrative book deal and didn’t leave a suicide note.