Ann Cleeves takes you craggy windswept shores to unravel old secrets among old friends and to give us a story with people you like, food you can taste, weather you can feel through your pajamas and a really good story that you have not heard before! Als Leiterin des Teams geht es auch schon mal so weit, dass sie einen Job selbst erledigt, wenn der Mitarbeiter ihn noch nicht gemacht hat. She is tenacious, intuitive, although a little too careless of her own safety as she follows leads in this most challenging and tragic of investigations.

It really puts me off because it doesn't do anything to advance the character development or the story itself, and it's just cruel. In 1987 Tim, Ann and their two daughters moved to Northumberland and the north east provides the inspiration for many of her subsequent titles. Die Figur, die von Ann Cleeves geschaffen wurde und von Brenda Blethyn dargestellt wird, ist unheimlich sympathisch in ihrer knorrigen Art. This story takes place in England and all the high school reunions take place on Holy Island and the reunions are always in same place.In present day, the friends are getting rather old and one of them is murdered at their weekend gathering.

she’s so unconventional, and unaffected by what others may think of her, but she’s an excellent detective, she’s demanding when it comes to her murder squad team, but they are only too eager give her their best efforts, and please her.In this, the tenth in Anne Cleeve’s excellent series, Vera find’s herself on the lovely but isolated island of Lindisfarne…. But what secrets was he about to reveal that would raise the ire in someone so much that murder was the solution? Vera Stanhope is a person who likes very few people, she can be grumpy and tetchy if things don't go her way, but is an excellent detective. The story starts with a reunion of friends who meet every five years and, of course, there are hidden secrets and past sins that are threatening to resurface to the point that someone desperate enough is led to murder to keep his secrets hidden! She went on to set up reading groups in prisons as part of the Inside Books project, became Cheltenham Literature Festival's first reader-in-residence and still enjoys working with libraries.

Her main suspects are a group of men and women, all in their sixties, who’ve been friends for decades, all of whom have their worries, problems and issues….Forming a close knot group, they decided to have a reunion after five years and then continued meeting every five years, bringing along partners and kids until now they are back more or less to the original core group. The Rising Tide can definitely be read as a standalone because of the exceptional writing of Ann Cleeves.

I must be getting used to Janine Birkett’s voice because it didn’t bother me as much with this book. The first Shetland novel, Raven Black , won the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel, and Ann was awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger in 2017. Holy Island has the distinction of being approachable only during certain hours, at low tide, when the causeway is accessible. It wasn't very interesting and if not for the obligation I felt having been given early access on NetGalley from the publisher, I wouldn't have finished the book.For those who both read the books and watch the television series, it must be said that it’s a pleasure to still have Joe Ashworth as Vera’s second in the books—“her surrogate son, and her conscience. Per usual, Cleeves gives us perspective not on just the group of friends, but also Vera, Joe, and Holly.