Two Rivers · Book 2

The Heron's Cry

by Ann Cleeves

Published
1 January 2021
Pages
400
ISBN-13
9781250818140
Type
novel

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Cover of The Heron's Cry

About this book

The Heron's Cry followed two years later, in 2021, matching The Long Call's 400 pages as Venn's second case alongside DS Jen Rafferty and DC Ross May.

Its place in Two Rivers

The Heron's Cry is book 2 in the Two Rivers series. It follows The Long Call. It is followed by The Girls on the Shore. 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…

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