The Herons Cry

Matthew Venn is a keeper...stunning David Baldacci \r\n\r\nThe No.1 Sunday Times bestselling series featuring Detective Matthew Venn, from author and creator of the Vera and Shetland series, Ann Cleeves - soon to be a major TV series.\r\n\r\nNorth Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder - Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed. His daughter Eve is a glassblower, and the murder weapon is a shard of one of her broken vases.\r\n\r\nDr Yeo seems an unlikely murder victim. Hes a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter. Matthew is unnerved though to find that she is a close friend of Jonathan, his husband.\r\n\r\nThen another body is found - killed in a similar way. Matthew finds himself treading carefully through the lies that fester at the heart of his community and a case that is dangerously close to home . . .\r\n\r\nThe Herons Cry is the second novel in Ann Cleeves Two Rivers following her Sunday Times bestseller, The Long Call. \r\n\r\nPraise for The Long Call:\r\nAs a huge fan of both the Shetland and Vera series of books, I had high expectations for Cleeves latest. Matthew Venn is a keeper. A stunning debut for Cleeves latest crimefighter David Baldacci\r\nHad me hooked ? a promising beginning to another fine chapter in the Ann Cleeves story The Times\r\nA triumph that cements Cleeves status as one of Britains best crime writers Daily Express \r\nClever, compassionate and atmospheric... I am already a Matthew Venn fan Elly Griffiths\r\nCleeves combines a flair for evoking sense of place with a thoughtful, complex plot Mail on Sunday\r\nA traditional mystery of the best sort Guardian