The Long Call
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3.6 • 90 Ratings
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- £11.99
Publisher Description
This audiobook is a brand new edition, recorded by Ben Aldridge.
The Long Call is the No.1 bestselling first novel in the Two Rivers series from Sunday Times bestseller and creator of Vera and Shetland, Ann Cleeves.
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. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family too.
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.
A 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.
Finding 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.
Customer Reviews
*Disturbing*
This is book one in the ‘Two Rivers series’, featuring detective Mathew Venn. I originally read this three years ago to catch up with the latest books that I am just getting round to. This review still stands, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s not a fast-paced story, but it’s set in the beautiful backdrop of North Devon.
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Matthew Venn moves back to North Devon where he grew up. His family are estranged because he turned his back on the highly strict evangelical community where he was brought up in, this also included having no relationship with his parents.
Now here he is going to his Father’s funeral but not as a guest he is mourning him from afar.
He is a DI in the Two Rivers community and he is heading up his first major case. One thing that won’t go down well with his Mother is that not only is he back he is also married to a man.
A man has been found dead on the beach and in order to unpick this case he is going to have to dig deep to unpick the many secrets the town and his inhabitants hold.
A young women with learning difficulties is kidnapped and as the search is on to find her another one gets taken. Matthew is searching for the connection and we soon find out the reason and lengths people will go to to cover up another crime.
At the centre of it all is a head member of the evangelical set who seems to hold power over everyone. Who is the murderer and will the murky truth they are trying to hide be revealed….
Not for me
Really far fetched, totally unbelievable