THE RISING TIDE
Ann Cleeves
Pan Macmillan
REVIEWED BY GEOFF ADAMS
Cleeves was brought up there; loves the smell and noise of the sea and calls of its birds. Earlier she worked as a cook in a bird observatory and was an auxiliary coastguard. In her novels, her heroine Vera loves to solve complicated murder mysteries.
Cleeves has written more than 35 novels in total and won the prestigious CWA Dagger for crime writing. I enjoy the robust character she has given to Vera with her impatient rushing around all leads, bossing around her detectives and other staff at the police station.
In this latest plot a group returns to Holy Island to spend a weekend reunion marking their meeting that began 50 years earlier. They plan to celebrate their bonds of friendship - and remember the friend once lost in the rising waters of a causeway.
But one of the party is found hanged and Vera rushes to the scene to start a difficult murder case. As the tide rises and falls each day secrets long hidden start to be found.
Eventually Vera and her team find themselves facing more danger than they could have expected.
There are a lot of characters to sort (as usual) and life is a rush, but Vera can handle this, and bring her case to a conclusion. An exciting plot.
