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The Long Call: A Detective Matthew Venn Novel

by Ann Cleeves

A murder case reconnects a detective with the life he left behind

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A murder case reconnects a detective with the life he left behind

Set in North Devon, The Long Call opens as Detective Matthew Venn attends his estranged father’s funeral. A killing on a nearby beach soon draws him back toward the strict evangelical community he left, and the family ties severed when he did. The case links Venn’s work as a detective with the people and places of his past, bringing two sources of conflict into the same investigation. As the first novel in a series, it establishes both a murder inquiry—a man found stabbed, marked by an albatross tattoo—and the personal history that shapes Venn’s return to familiar ground.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers who enjoy traditional detective fiction and murder investigations.
  • Readers interested in mysteries where a detective’s personal history intersects with the case.
  • Readers drawn to stories set in North Devon and involving family estrangement and religious community.

Themes

Murder investigationFamily estrangementReligious communityPersonal history and belongingNorth Devon

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Book overview

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
NOW A BRITBOX SERIOUS STARRING BEN ALDRIDGE AND PEARL MACKIE

The Long Call from Ann Cleeves--bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows--introduces the first in a gripping new series, told with deep compassion and searing insight.

"In Matthew Venn, Ann has created a complex, daring, subtle character." --Louise Penny

"Matthew Venn is a keeper. A stunning debut for Cleeves' latest crimefighter."--David Baldacci

In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father's funeral takes place. On the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too.

Now, as he turns and walks away again, he 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, as deadly secrets hidden at their hearts are revealed, and his new life is forced into a collision course with the world he thought he'd left behind.

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