Two Rivers · Book 1
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.
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