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

Product Information

The Rising Tide is published in the UK by Pan Macmillan: the hardback was published on 1st September 2022 (ISBN: 978-1-5098-8961-7), and the paperback on 16th March 2023 (978-1-5098-8965-5).

Cleeves presents a myriad of suspects, trying to glean the motive, which is not at all obvious, and fully engages the reader. DS Joe Ashcroft uncovers information about Rick including allegations of harassment but this proves to be just the tip of the iceberg in this increasingly troublesome investigation. Admittedly, someone who hadn’t read several of the earlier Vera books would miss many of the references to her past, wouldn’t fully understand her tenacity, her reasoning, how life with Hector, her father, warped her mind.Und dennoch ist der ersten Vermutung, dass der Täter aus eben diesem Kreise stammt, nichts entgegenzusetzen.

Her descriptors of island life and the rising tide along the Lindisfarne Causeway add to the pending dangers from Nature itself. I am late to the party of reading the Vera Stanhope series (not just watching the wonderful tv series).Per usual, Cleeves gives us perspective not on just the group of friends, but also Vera, Joe, and Holly. 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.

It seemed to have a touch of suspense towards the end, which I did not manage to figure out on my own, but Vera shines again!This one is complex, with several people who might have wanted Rick dead, and many unexpected twists and turns.