The Long Call

Meet Detective Matthew Venn. From Ann Cleeves, the Sunday Times bestselling crime author and creator of Vera Stanhope and Shetlands Jimmy Perez, The Long Call is the number one bestselling first novel in the Two Rivers series. Now a major ITV series.

Clever, compassionate and atmospheric, with a great cast of new characters to love – Elly Griffiths, award-winning author of The Crossing Places

North Devon. Where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his fathers funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family too.

Now hes back, not just to mourn his father at a distance, but to take charge of his first major case in the Two Rivers region; a complex place not quite as idyllic as tourists suppose.

A body has been found on the beach near to Matthews new home: a man with the tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death.

Finding the killer is Venn’s only focus, and his team’s investigation will take him straight back into the community he left behind, and the deadly secrets that lurk there.

Stunning – David Baldacci, author of The 6:20 Man

Another fine chapter in the Ann Cleeves story – The Times

One of Britains best crime writers – Daily Express

‘Cleeves is quietly carving out a reputation as the new Queen of Crime’ – Sunday Mirror

The Long Call is the first entry in the Two Rivers detective series. Continue the mysteries with The Herons Cry.