The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, Bk 10)
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Hardcover
Author:
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Hardcover
Having actually driven across the causeway and visited Holy (AKA Lindisfarne) Island, I looked forward to reading Ann Cleeves' The Rising Tide with a great deal of anticipation. Neither Ann nor Vera disappointed.
As always, the setting is perfect, and a mystery concerning a group of people who've been hiding secrets for fifty years is suitably complex and satisfying. There's a house with a view of Holy Island across the water that I would love to have for myself (as long as I could have Vera's mythical Land Rover to go with it). Still, houses and Land Rovers and old secrets aside, it is the characters in this series that always bring me back for more.
Vera herself, utterly unconcerned with her appearance and her behavior, is a bit of a hermit, but she's getting used to having a neighbor she can spend some time with. It's an added bonus for readers that the neighbor is mystery writer Joanna. Not only does Joanna get to ask Vera technical questions for her books, but now Vera is getting asked to accompany her on book-related trips.
Vera is part matriarch part guru for her team, and she thinks of second-in-command Joe Ashworth as a surrogate son and her conscience. Joe provides a lot of hard work and a steadying influence on the team while Holly is the bright, competitive one who dreams of taking Vera's place while simultaneously worrying that she could actually become Vera, appearance and all. The two women do share some similarities after all.
The Rising Tide is all about hypocrisy and the lengths some people will go to in order to hide the sins of their past. Set on an island where the tide tables are in charge of daily life, this mystery has all the twists and turns and secrets and shocks that will make readers lock their doors on all interruptions so they can spend time with one of the best detectives in crime fiction.
(Review copy courtesy of the publisher and Net Galley)
As always, the setting is perfect, and a mystery concerning a group of people who've been hiding secrets for fifty years is suitably complex and satisfying. There's a house with a view of Holy Island across the water that I would love to have for myself (as long as I could have Vera's mythical Land Rover to go with it). Still, houses and Land Rovers and old secrets aside, it is the characters in this series that always bring me back for more.
Vera herself, utterly unconcerned with her appearance and her behavior, is a bit of a hermit, but she's getting used to having a neighbor she can spend some time with. It's an added bonus for readers that the neighbor is mystery writer Joanna. Not only does Joanna get to ask Vera technical questions for her books, but now Vera is getting asked to accompany her on book-related trips.
Vera is part matriarch part guru for her team, and she thinks of second-in-command Joe Ashworth as a surrogate son and her conscience. Joe provides a lot of hard work and a steadying influence on the team while Holly is the bright, competitive one who dreams of taking Vera's place while simultaneously worrying that she could actually become Vera, appearance and all. The two women do share some similarities after all.
The Rising Tide is all about hypocrisy and the lengths some people will go to in order to hide the sins of their past. Set on an island where the tide tables are in charge of daily life, this mystery has all the twists and turns and secrets and shocks that will make readers lock their doors on all interruptions so they can spend time with one of the best detectives in crime fiction.
(Review copy courtesy of the publisher and Net Galley)
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