The Heron's Cry

<b>The number one <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling series featuring Detective Matthew Venn, from author and creator of the Vera and Shetland series, Ann Cleeves. Now a major ITV series, <i>The Long Call</i>.</b><br /><br /><b>‘Matthew Venn is a keeper . . . stunning’ </b>–<b> David Baldacci</b><br /><br />North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coast-line. 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.<br /><br />Dr Yeo seems an unlikely murder victim. He’s a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter. Matthew is unnerved though to find that Eve is a close friend of Jonathan, his husband.<br /><br />Then 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 . . .<br /><br /><b><i>The Heron’s Cry</i> is the second novel in Ann Cleeves’ Two Rivers series following her <i>Sunday Times</i> bestseller, <i>The Long Call.</i></b><br /><br /><b>Praise for <i>The Long Call</i>:</b><br /><br />‘Had me hooked . . . a promising beginning to another fine chapter in the Ann Cleeves’ story’ – <b><i>The Times</i></b><br /><br />‘A triumph that cements Cleeves’ status as <b>one of Britain’s best crime writers</b>’ – <b><i>Daily Express</i></b><br /><br />‘Clever, compassionate and atmospheric . . . I am already a Matthew Venn fan’ – <b>Elly Griffiths</b><br /><br />‘Cleeves combines a flair for evoking sense of place with a thoughtful, complex plot’ – <b><i>Mail on Sunday</i></b><br /><br />‘A traditional mystery of the best sort’ – <b><i>Guardian</i></b>