Come Death and High Water

Its place in George and Molly Palmer-Jones

Come Death and High Water is book 2 in the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series. It follows A Bird in the Hand. It is followed by Murder in Paradise. See the full George and Molly Palmer-Jones reading order.

George and Molly Palmer-Jones are Ann Cleeves's first series detectives: a retired Home Office civil servant and his social-worker wife who take up amateur investigation together, usually with a birdwatching connection, since Cleeves and her husband were keen birders themselves when she started writing. Across eight novels published between 1986 and 1996, the Palmer-Joneses work cases that lean on Cleeves's own knowledge of Britain's birdwatching subculture and its remote coastal and island settings — the same…