By Ann Cleeves
For 50 years a group of friends have met for a reunion weekend every five years on Holy Island. Located off the Northeastern coast of England, it gets isolated from the mainland with the surging tide.
There the group – a vicar, a television personality, a deli owner, and a retired school head, now with Alzheimer’s Disease – formed a powerful bond as classmates over the initial gathering a half-century earlier.
Naturally one of the pensioners had to die there and as expected Northumberland’s Inspector Vera Stanhope and her team would solve the murder.
That’s where presumption ends.
New York Times bestselling author Ann Cleeves and her characters take the reader on an emotional journey with as much nuance and as many turns as the sea revealing and concealing with the coastal tide.
While this is the author’s 10th Vera Stanhope novel, this is my first. A lover of British mystery dramas, I know Vera from watching award-winning actress Brenda Blethyn embody the character. I was thrilled at the opportunity to read and review the latest installment in the series.
I not only enjoyed the masterful puzzle Cleeves laid out in The Rising Tide. The beauty of her writing seamlessly showing the harshness and beauty of nature interspersed with the power of the ordinary is inspiring.
I received an Advanced Reader Copy of The Rising Tide from St. Martin’s Press, Minotaur books through NetGalley. This review is fair and impartial. I look forward to going back and reading the nine previous titles in the Vera Stanhope series.
There the group – a vicar, a television personality, a deli owner, and a retired school head, now with Alzheimer’s Disease – formed a powerful bond as classmates over the initial gathering a half-century earlier.
Naturally one of the pensioners had to die there and as expected Northumberland’s Inspector Vera Stanhope and her team would solve the murder.
That’s where presumption ends.
New York Times bestselling author Ann Cleeves and her characters take the reader on an emotional journey with as much nuance and as many turns as the sea revealing and concealing with the coastal tide.
While this is the author’s 10th Vera Stanhope novel, this is my first. A lover of British mystery dramas, I know Vera from watching award-winning actress Brenda Blethyn embody the character. I was thrilled at the opportunity to read and review the latest installment in the series.
I not only enjoyed the masterful puzzle Cleeves laid out in The Rising Tide. The beauty of her writing seamlessly showing the harshness and beauty of nature interspersed with the power of the ordinary is inspiring.
I received an Advanced Reader Copy of The Rising Tide from St. Martin’s Press, Minotaur books through NetGalley. This review is fair and impartial. I look forward to going back and reading the nine previous titles in the Vera Stanhope series.
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