Years went by & Venn ended up living in the area so his family were aware he became a cop.
And it turns out when you’re banished from the church, you also lose your family in the deal. His mother & father belonged to a strict evangelical community & he did too until the day he no longer believed in God. There are a few things you need to know about Venn as they inform his character & how he conducts himself. This observation gives you immediate insight into Venn, a smart & tightly wound copper in North Devon. The long call is a term used to describe the cry of the herring gull although to main character DI Matthew Venn, it always sounds more like someone howling in pain. On the whole though, I think this series is going to be excellent. I also found the way Christine and Lucy's Down's Syndrome was depicted was inconsistent at times - one moment they were independent and making plans for action and the next they were utterly innocent and naive. Was s/he turning on his/her conspirators, or was this some sort of mental break? The identity of the actual killer was a little unconvincing for me. I had the odd niggle - why did the solicitor insist on coming into see Matthew, when the little he had to say could perfectly easily have been said on the telephone? When the murderer confessed at the end It was mostly well-plotted, although the characterization was perhaps stronger. There are two more junior police officers who I assume will also continue to feature. I loved the setting and Matthew's character and background. This is the first in a new series set in North Devon, with a new DI, Matthew Venn. I received a copy of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley. Now he's back, not just to mourn his father at a distance, but to take charge of his first major case in the Two Rivers region a complex place not quite as idyllic as tourists suppose.Ī body has been found on the beach near to Matthew's new home: a man with the tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death.įinding the killer is Venn's only focus, and his team's investigation will take him straight back into the community he left behind, and the deadly secrets that lurk there. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family too. In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. In this rural idyll, where two rivers meet, crime is always there waiting to rise from the water. Bestselling author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope series', Ann Cleeves returns with the first in a brand-new series set in North Devon and featuring Detective Matthew Venn.
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