The Heron's Cry

?Matthew Venn is a keeper . . . stunning' David BaldacciThe number one Sunday Times bestselling series featuring Detective Matthew Venn, from author and creator of the Vera and Shetland series, Ann Cleeves - soon to be a major TV series.North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coast-line. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder - Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed. His daughter, Eve, is a glassblower, and the murder weapon is a shard of one of her broken vases.Dr Yeo seems an unlikely murder victim. He's a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter. Matthew is unnerved though to find that Eve is a close friend of Jonathan, his husband.Then another body is found - killed in a similar way. Matthew finds himself treading carefully through the lies that fester at the heart of his community and a case that is dangerously close to home . . .The Heron's Cry is the second novel in Ann Cleeves' Two Rivers series following her Sunday Times bestseller, The Long Call.Praise for The Long Call:?As a huge fan of both the Shetland and Vera series of books, I had high expectations for Cleeves' latest. Matthew Venn is a keeper. A stunning debut for Cleeves' latest crimefighter' David Baldacci?Had me hooked . . . a promising beginning to another fine chapter in the Ann Cleeves' story' The Times?A triumph that cements Cleeves' status as one of Britain's best crime writers' Daily Express?Clever, compassionate and atmospheric . . . I am already a Matthew Venn fan' Elly Griffiths?Cleeves combines a flair for evoking sense of place with a thoughtful, complex plot' Mail on Sunday?A traditional mystery of the best sort' Guardian von Cleeves, Ann