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Ann Cleeves—New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows—returns with The Raging Storm, the extraordinary third installment in the Matthew Venn series.
Synopsis:
Fierce winds, dark secrets, deadly intentions.
When Jem Rosco—sailor, adventurer, and legend—blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity in their midst. But just as abruptly as he arrived, Rosco disappears again, and soon his lifeless body is discovered in a dinghy, anchored off Scully Cove, a place with legends of its own.
This is an uncomfortable case for Detective Inspector Matthew Venn. Greystone is a place he visited as a child, a community he parted ways with. Superstition and rumor mix with fact as another body is found, and Venn finds his judgment clouded.
As the winds howl, and Venn and his team investigate, he realizes that no one, including himself, is safe from Scully Cove’s storm of dark secrets.
Review
This is the 3rd book in the series, and spoiler alert- the LAST one in the series. I think Ann had decided there really wasn't much more left for Venn, so she chose a more convoluted mystery to send him out on. Venn returns to an area he knew some from growing up. What he soon finds is his past catching up to his present, as the religious group his parents belonged has a group in the area, and its members are involved in the current case. With the dead man an apparent mystery, it takes Venn and his team time to pick apart the threads of his life, before they can try to determine why he was murdered, and if anyone else is in danger, as past secrets start to come out. It's a bit of a roller coaster read at the end, and readers may have the sense that the series could be picked back up again, with a different angle, if Cleeves chooses (but for now, we can wait for the next Vera book!). Perfect for fans of the series, I would suggest having read the previous books, so this one makes more sense.
About the Author:
ANN CLEEVES is the multi-million copy bestselling author behind three hit television series―Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall, class="a-text-italic"Vera, starring Academy Award Nominee Brenda Blethyn, and The Long Call, starring Ben Aldridge―all of which are watched and loved in the United States. All three are available on BritBox.
The first Shetland novel, Raven Black, won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for best crime novel, and Ann was awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger in 2017. She was awarded the OBE in 2022 for services to reading and libraries. Ann lives in the United Kingdom.
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