The Raging Storm (Two Rivers #3)
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Longlisted for the 2024 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Prize
Detective Matthew Venn returns in The Raging Storm, the third captivating novel in the Two Rivers series by New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves, author of the Vera Stanhope and Shetland series.
When Jem Rosco, sailor, adventurer and local legend, blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity in their midst.
The community thinks nothing of it when Rosco disappears again; that's just the sort of man he is. Until, a lifeboat is launched to a hoax call-out during a raging storm and his body is found in a dinghy, anchored off Scully Cove, a place with legends of its own.
This is an uncomfortable case for DI Matthew Venn. He came to the remote village as a child, its community populated by the Barum Brethren that he parted ways with, so when superstition and rumour mix and another body is found in the cove, Matthew soon finds his judgement clouded. As the stormy winds howl and the village is cut off, Venn and his team start their investigation, little realizing their own lives might be in danger.
The Raging Storm follows The Long Call, now a television series on Britbox, and The Heron's Cry in Ann Cleeves' bestselling, critically acclaimed Two Rivers series.
About this Author
Ann Cleeves is the bestselling author of more than thirty-five critically acclaimed novels, and in 2017 was awarded the highest accolade in crime writing, the CWA Diamond Dagger. She is the creator of popular detectives Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez, and Matthew Venn, who can be found on television's Vera, Shetland, and The Long Call. The TV series and the books they are based on have become international sensations, capturing the minds of millions worldwide. She is also author of the George and Molly Palmer-Jones and Inspector Ramsay series, and the standalone crime novels Burial of Ghosts and The Sleeping and the Dead.
Ann worked as a probation officer, bird observatory cook, and auxiliary coastguard before she started writing. She is a member of 'Murder Squad', working with other British northern writers to promote crime fiction. Ann also spends her time advocating for reading to improve health and wellbeing and supporting access to books. In 2021, her Reading for Wellbeing project launched with local authorities across the North East. She lives in Northumberland where the Vera books are set.
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