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

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A visit with Vera--whether in the series or via the television adaptation, now in its 11th season--is always welcome. Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition.

The Rising Tide: (Vera Stanhope) by Ann Cleeves | WHSmith The Rising Tide: (Vera Stanhope) by Ann Cleeves | WHSmith

As ever, Cleeves goes deeper, examining the precarious nature of life and what it is to age and face your own mortality. It seemed to him now that he’d spent the rest of his life trying to find relationships that were as intense and fulfilling as those developed here. She is the creator of popular detectives Vera Stanhope and Jimmy Perez who can now be found on television in ITV's Vera and BBC One's Shetland. Second in the military crime series featuring Special Agents Scott Brodie and Magnolia "Maggie" Taylor, after The Deserter (2019). Sue Keller, whose mother died when she was a child, is drifting through life in New York after the recent death of her father.She learns that the newly deceased was recently fired from his job for misconduct and Vera knows that the friends are hiding something.

The Rising Tide: A dark, atmospheric mystery from bestseller The Rising Tide: A dark, atmospheric mystery from bestseller

There’d been no physical contact – it hadn’t come to that – but Philip had sensed the tension, which was so different from the weekend’s general mood of easy companionship. The books never get too dark, never venture too far into dangerous territory, but aren’t outright cozy, either…. She’s avoiding human contact as much as possible, until she bumps into Anneliese, who tells her she used to be Sue’s live-in nanny. Ann also spends her time advocating for reading to improve health and wellbeing and supporting access to books.He closed his eyes again to remember Isobel and that argument which must surely have led to her death. Cleeves crafts a clever central puzzle, then confers remarkable emotional complexity using her keenly drawn characters’ advancing age, wistful nostalgia, and thorny shared history. 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.

The Rising Tide: A Vera Stanhope Novel 10 Kindle Edition The Rising Tide: A Vera Stanhope Novel 10 Kindle Edition

He’d been in his first-floor room in the Pilgrims’ House looking down, an observer, not a participant.He’d known after all that the tide was rushing in and it would be foolhardy to attempt the crossing. He has that nothing-to-lose attitude, given that his career is swirling down the toilet bowl anyway. Ann is also a passionate champion for libraries and was a National Libraries Day Ambassador in 2016. Cleeves crafts a clever central puzzle, then confers remarkable emotional complexity using her keenly drawn characters' advancing age, wistful nostalgia, and thorny shared history. BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

The Rising Tide, the tenth Vera Stanhope book, by Ann Cleeves

If he’d rushed downstairs and outside, he might have stood in front of the car and stopped her driving away. Fans will enjoy matching wits with Cleeves’ eccentric sleuth right up to the dangerous surprise in her denouement. Rick and Isobel hadn’t noticed her, because they were so focused on each other, spitting out insults. They bonded on that first trip, but what may have really brought them together was the death of Isobel, one of their number, at their first reunion five years later. Photograph: Alan Turkington/Alamy Flora Collins explores the ‘line between love and obsession’ in Nanny Dearest.Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends are hiding, and whether the events of many years before could have led to murder then, and now. The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs. They can’t quite believe it when rumours start to spread that he has been breaking into his neighbours’ homes and stealing things. 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.