The Girls on the Shore
- Published
- 1 January 2022
- Pages
- 33
- ISBN-13
- 9781250859372
- Type
- short
About this book
At just 33 pages, The Girls on the Shore (2022) is a short standalone e-story that slots into the series between The Heron's Cry and The Raging Storm, giving DS Jen Rafferty extra time in the spotlight.
Key facts about The Girls on the Shore
The Girls on the Shore is a short story by Ann Cleeves. Readers have had it since 2022. It runs to 33 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Girls on the Shore. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781250859372 to find the main one.
The Girls on the Shore is book 3 of 4 in the Two Rivers series. The series has 4 published books. However, the series starts with The Long Call (2019).
Additionally, Ann Cleeves writes George and Molly Palmer-Jones, Inspector Ramsay and Vera Stanhope, plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our cozy mystery, police procedural and mystery shelves. Meanwhile, The Killing Stones is the latest published Ann Cleeves book on file, from 7 October 2025.
About Ann Cleeves
Ann Cleeves is an English crime writer whose atmospheric, character-driven procedurals are rooted in remote, weather-beaten landscapes she has often lived in herself. Early jobs cooking at a Fair Isle bird observatory and, later, years spent on the tidal, no-electricity Hilbre Island fed directly into her fiction. See every Ann Cleeves book in order.
Its place in Two Rivers
The Girls on the Shore is book 3 in the Two Rivers series. It follows The Heron's Cry. It is followed by The Raging Storm. See the full Two Rivers reading order.
Detective Inspector Matthew Venn returns to the North Devon town he fled as a teenager — driven out by a strict evangelical community that couldn't accept who he was — to investigate a body washed up near the meeting point of the Taw and Torridge rivers, the confluence that gives Ann Cleeves's third series its name. Venn is a departure from her earlier detectives: precise, awkward, still working out his relationship with his estranged family and his marriage to Jonathan, who runs the local arts center. Around him…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250859372