The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope)

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His crime spreads its tentacles throughout the novel, but Varvello is more interested in exploring its fallout – how his mother has never been able to move on, driven to despair by her son’s actions; how his father has struggled to survive; what it’s done to his older sisters.

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Varvello’s boy of the title is never named, but his presence is all-encompassing – although it is only towards the end that we start to see the world through his anguished eyes in this darkly eloquent and moving novel. The low sunlight of autumn was flooding through the plain glass windows into the building, but he knew he had time for more reflection – more guilt? Vera--blunt, intelligent, frumpy and obsessive yet deeply affectionate toward her team--continues to prove her investigative mettle. But with the tide rising, secrets long-hidden are finding their way to the surface, and Vera and the team may find themselves in more danger than they could have believed possible . A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been.

An image of Isobel, so young, so bonny, so reckless in her desires and her thoughtlessness, intruded into his meditation and he allowed his mind to wander. Her vehicle had been swept from the causeway in the high tide of the equinox, tossed from the road like a toy by the wind and the waves. So, here Philip was, a priest on the verge of retirement, an old believer, yet with no great desire to meet his maker. He’d known after all that the tide was rushing in and it would be foolhardy to attempt the crossing. Second in the military crime series featuring Special Agents Scott Brodie and Magnolia "Maggie" Taylor, after The Deserter (2019).

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Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc. This year would mark fifty years of friendship and he needed to offer a prayer of thanks and to remember. Ann also spends her time advocating for reading to improve health and wellbeing and supporting access to books. A pinwheeling third-person narrative drives the pace, while Vera’s candor tempers the plot’s darker elements.The Rising Tide is exactly the sort of novel she likes — it provides escape and 'the joy of loose ends tied up'. His working life moved to the beat of funeral services, the tolling of the church bell, the march of pall-bearers. As ever, Cleeves goes deeper, examining the precarious nature of life and what it is to age and face your own mortality. Now, after a night of drinking and reliving the past, Annie, long divorced from Daniel, finds Rick’s body hanging in his room. It was as inevitable as the water, which twice a day slid across the sand and mud of the shore until the causeway was covered.

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Perhaps the conversion had begun a little later, the evening of the same day, when he’d sat in this chapel in the candlelight with his friends and they’d cried together, trying to make sense of Isobel’s passing.Even if Philip had been closer, he might not have made out what was being said, because there was a storm blowing and the wind would have carried the words away. Had that been the moment when he’d changed from a selfish, self-opinionated, edgy young man to a person of faith? Rick may have lost his BBC hosting gig over sexual misconduct allegations, but he recently signed a lucrative book deal and didn’t leave a suicide note.