AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
**NOW A BRITBOX SERIOUS STARRING BEN ALDRIDGE AND PEARL MACKIE
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The Long Call from Ann Cleeves--bestselling and award-winning author
of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV
shows--introduces the first in a gripping new series, told with deep
compassion and searing insight.
"In Matthew Venn, Ann has created a complex, daring, subtle
character." --Louise Penny
"Matthew Venn is a keeper. A stunning debut for Cleeves' latest
crimefighter."--David Baldacci
In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea,
Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged
father's funeral takes place. On the day Matthew left the strict
evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too.
Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of
his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo
of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death.
The case calls Matthew back to the people and places of his past, as
deadly secrets hidden at their hearts are revealed, and his new life is
forced into a collision course with the world he thought he'd left
behind.