The Long Call
- Published
- 1 January 2019
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9781250839022
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Long Call, published in 2019, opens the Two Rivers series as DI Matthew Venn returns to the North Devon town he fled as a teenager to investigate a body washed up near the confluence of the Taw and Torridge; ITV adapted it for television two years later.
Key facts about The Long Call
Ann Cleeves wrote The Long Call, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2019. The book has 400 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781250839022 to find the main one.
The Long Call is book 1 of 4 in the Two Rivers series. The series has 4 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
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 Long Call is book 1 in the Two Rivers series. It is followed by The Heron's Cry. 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 9781250204462
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250204455
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781432870430