The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope)

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After an autopsy reveals someone smothered Rick before stringing him up, Vera and company uncover myriad viable suspects; not only was Rick’s BBC departure more contentious than reported, but he was writing a roman à clef in which he planned to expose his oldest pals’ darkest secrets. The partners deliver a few punchlines of their own in this fast-moving story that’s replete with twists and danger. He’d stayed where he was, staring out of the window like a nebby old woman, waiting to see what would happen next.

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Who doesn’t love “large and shabby” Vera Stanhope, the blunt detective in Ann Cleeves’s Northumberland police procedurals? Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U.

Now, it crossed his mind again that Judith, the teacher who’d brought them together, might make a suitable partner, that he might find company and intimacy in old age. Second in the military crime series featuring Special Agents Scott Brodie and Magnolia "Maggie" Taylor, after The Deserter (2019). Had that been the moment when he’d changed from a selfish, self-opinionated, edgy young man to a person of faith?

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The TV series and the books they are based on have become international sensations, capturing the minds of millions worldwide.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. For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend that they lost to the rising causeway tide five years later. 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. Set in Devon, England, this thoughtful series launch from bestseller Cleeves (the Vera Stanhope series) introduces Det.