Sách - The Raging Storm - A brilliant and tense mystery featuring Matthew Venn of by Ann Cleeves (UK edition, hardcover)

Ships from and sold by EXPERAL Singapore Publisher: Macmillan UK Origin: United Kingdom (Imported) ISBN 13: 9781529077698 Condition: Brandnew Binding: hardcover Pages: 400 Dimensons: 245 x 163 x 39 | 622 (gram) ---------------------------------------- Review QuoteAs a huge fan of both the Shetland and Vera series of books, I had high expectations for Cleeves’ latest. Matthew Venn is a keeper. A stunning debut for Cleeves’ latest crimefighter Review Quote Had me hooked — a promising beginning to another fine chapter in the Ann Cleeves story Review Quote Clever, compassionate and atmospheric, with a great cast of new characters to love. I am already a Matthew Venn fan Review QuoteA triumph that cements Cleeves' status as one of Britain's best crime writers Review Quote Brilliant, thoughtful and deeply engaging Review QuoteAnn Cleeves’ new series gets off to a terrific start with The Long Call – her native Devon is derfully evoked, and Matthew Venn is a very appealing new detective. Another sure-fire hit Review QuoteCleeves combines a flair for evoking sense of place with a thoughtful, complex plot Review QuoteThe troubled Venn is a great protagonist, and Cleeves may well have created her next top TV cop Review QuoteA traditional mystery of the best sort Review QuoteEvocative and gripping – an absolute triumphFrom Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller Ann Cleeves come the third Matthew Venn novel – following The Long Call, now an ITV adaptation, and The Heron’s Cry – in which the mysterious of a celebrity on the Devon coast starts Venn on a path to the truth and straight back into his past. Detective Matthew Venn returns in The Raging Storm, the next captivating novel in the Two Rivers series from Ann Cleeves, the number one bestselling author and creator of Vera and Shetland.When Jem Rosco – sailor, adventurer and local 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. The residents think nothing of it when Rosco disappears again; that’s the sort of man he is.Until the lifeboat is launched to a hoax call-out during a raging storm and his body is found in a dinghy, anchored off Scully Cove, a place with legends of its own.This is an unable case for DI Matthew Venn. He came to the remote village as a child, its community populated by the Barum Brethren that he parted ways with, so when superstition and rumour mix and another body is found in the cove, Matthew soon finds his judgement clouded.As the stormy winds howl and the village is cut off, Venn and his team start their investigation, little realizing their own lives might be in danger. . . Biographical Note Ann Cleeves is the author of more than thirty-five critically acclaimed novels, and in 2017 was awarded the highest accolade in crime writing, the CWA Diamond Dagger. She is the creator of popular detectives Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez and Matthew Venn, who can be found on television in ITV’s Vera, BBC One’s Shetland and ITV's The Long Call respectively. The TV series and the books they are based on have become international sensations, capturing the minds of millions worldwide.Ann worked as a probation officer, bird observatory cook and auxiliary coastguard before she started writing. She is a member of ‘Murder Squad’, working with other British northern writers to promote crime fiction. Ann also spends her time advocating for reading to improve health and wellbeing and supporting access to books. In 2021 her Reading for Wellbeing project launched with local authorities across the North East. She lives in Northumberland where the Vera books are set. Giá sản phẩm trên Tiki đã bao gồm thuế theo luật hiện hành. Bên cạnh đó, tuỳ vào loại sản phẩm, hình thức và địa chỉ giao hàng mà có thể phát sinh thêm chi phí khác như phí vận chuyển, phụ phí hàng cồng kềnh, thuế nhập khẩu (đối với đơn hàng giao từ nước ngoài có giá trị trên 1 triệu đồng).....