The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope)

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The fact that Rick was recently fired from his job over allegations of sexual impropriety does not convince Annie that her notably vain friend would commit suicide and leave himself to be found naked. He’d been in his first-floor room in the Pilgrims’ House looking down, an observer, not a participant. Here he sat, hands clasped and eyes shut, waiting for his friends, longing again for the connection and the ease that only they could give, pondering the moment of Isobel’s death. If, like me, you were joyfully terrified by The Hand That Rock s the Cradle (starring Rebecca De Mornay) in the 1990s, then this is the thriller for you.

The Rising Tide, the tenth Vera Stanhope book, by Ann Cleeves

Fortunately, Kit’s partner, Lilly, is a brilliant vaccinologist and she starts investigating the origins of this mysterious plague. Anyway, the partners complement each other: Taylor is the more rational and level-headed, while Brodie blatantly disregards jurisdictional boundaries when he needs to. Now, it crossed his mind again that Judith, the teacher who’d brought them together, might make a suitable partner, that he might find company and intimacy in old age.One of them, Isobel, died that weekend, rushing off after a row and attempting to drive over the causeway while the tide was rushing in (“Her vehicle had been swept from the causeway in the high tide of the equinox, tossed from the road like a toy by the wind and the waves”). Vera Stanhope is one of the literary world’s most realistic detectives… This just might be my favorite Vera book, at least thus far.

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The engrossing plot delves into the friends' reminiscences, which seem innocuous but possess an underlying menace. They can’t quite believe it when rumours start to spread that he has been breaking into his neighbours’ homes and stealing things. Her vehicle had been swept from the causeway in the high tide of the equinox, tossed from the road like a toy by the wind and the waves. Ann worked as a probation officer, bird observatory cook and auxiliary coastguard before she started writing. Mail on Sunday Who doesn’t love ‘large and shabby’ Vera Stanhope, the blunt detective in Ann Cleeves’s Northumberland police procedurals?He remembered the babies, who’d had no experience of life at all, the young who’d had no opportunity to change and grow. If one of the women who’d shared that first weekend of connection had been free, perhaps that would have worked. She’s avoiding human contact as much as possible, until she bumps into Anneliese, who tells her she used to be Sue’s live-in nanny. The Rising Tide is published in the UK by Pan Macmillan: the hardback was published on 1st September 2022 (ISBN: 978-1-5098-8961-7), and the paperback on 16th March 2023 (978-1-5098-8965-5). Pietro, the father, finds a notebook filled with his daughter’s handwriting, her brother’s name scrawled repeatedly on the page.