The Rising Tide: A dark, atmospheric mystery from bestseller Ann Cleeves, featuring Vera Stanhope, star of ITV's Vera

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Soon after they married, Tim was appointed as warden of Hilbre, a tiny tidal island nature reserve in the Dee Estuary. I would have abandoned this book the minute the "false sexual assault allegation" came up, but I wanted to know if I was right about the murderer (I wasn't). In this standalone that includes characters Joe and Holly, murder suspects drop their defenses before Colombo-like detective Vera Stanhope, a character who understands natives and criminals better than most—and who seems to carry a deep empathy for them all.

Ann's Shetland series bring us DI Jimmy Perez, investigating in the mysterious, dark, and beautiful Shetland Islands.

Another murder occurs soon afterward, and Vera suspects the deaths - possibly including Isobel's demise 45 years ago - are connected. But her team, and some of the suspects, know that she possesses a sharp intelligence and uncanny crime-solving instincts. In 1987 Tim, Ann and their two daughters moved to Northumberland and the north east provides the inspiration for many of her subsequent titles. Sadly, tragedy struck the reunion event when Isobel's car was caught by a high tide and she drowned. Die Vielzahl an Nebenschauplätzen verleiht der Geschichte zusätzlichen Charme und hält den Leser in Atem.

also known as Holy Island, a small community only reached by a causeway, completely cut off from mainland Northumberland at high tide. Tragedy followed at a reunion five years after they first started meeting when Isobel Hall, one of their friends, drowned in the rising tide on the causeway that leads to the island.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The TV series and the books they are based on have become international sensations, capturing the minds of millions worldwide.

They reminisce and celebrate the school trip where they first met as teenagers at the Pilgrim’s House. When the group were still in their early 20s and at their very first five-year reunion, one of their members perished in the dangerous waters that surround the island. If you've nar read this Newcastle (the toon) / Northumberland based series, eeee, howay man, you should because it’s canny and champion. So begins a case that seems at first to be slowly progressing as Vera and her team try to figure out if this is a crime that stems from the last or present. Fans will enjoy matching wits with Cleeves' eccentric sleuth right up to the dangerous surprise in her denouement.The obvious suspects are the reunion participants followed by Rick's supervisors, co-workers, acquaintances, and so on. Alle eint eine gemeinsame Vergangenheit: Vor fünfundvierzig Jahren bei dem ersten Klassentreffen war ein Mädchen tödlich verunglückt.

I tried to slow down my reading because who knows when or if there will be another Vera book but I couldn't control myself. She is adept at conjuring the texture of their complex relationships, their stories, and the stories they tell themselves to keep on going. 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.Dieser Krimi ist ein unheimlich schöner, spannender und toller Krimi, den ich sehr gerne im Original gelesen habe.