THE LONG CALL

From Ann Cleeves—bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows—comes the first in a gripping new series.

In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn 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, and his new life is forced into a collision course with the world he thought he’d left behind.

“Atmospheric. Cleeves’s true strength lies in her descriptions of the natural world.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Brilliant, thoughtful and deeply engaging.”
—Sara Paretsky, bestselling author of the V.I. Warshawski series