The Rising Tide
- Published
- 1 September 2022
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9781509889624
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Rising Tide (2022, 384 pages) is the tenth full-length Vera Stanhope novel, following the e-short The Woman on the Island and preceding The Dark Wives. Ann Cleeves continues to root the procedural in the Northumberland coast's landscape and Vera's lived-in, underestimated persona.
Key facts about The Rising Tide
The Rising Tide is a novel by Ann Cleeves. Readers have had it since 1 September 2022. It runs to 384 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of The Rising Tide. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781509889624 to find the main one.
The Rising Tide is book 12 of 13 in the Vera Stanhope series. The series has 13 published books. However, the series starts with The Crow Trap (1999). The Dark Wives is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 27 August 2024.
Additionally, Ann Cleeves writes George and Molly Palmer-Jones, Inspector Ramsay and Shetland, 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 Vera Stanhope
The Rising Tide is book 12 in the Vera Stanhope series. It follows The Woman on the Island. It is followed by The Dark Wives. See the full Vera Stanhope reading order.
DI Vera Stanhope is a rumpled, overweight, prickly detective working the Northumberland coast, and one of British crime fiction's most deliberately unglamorous protagonists: no tortured backstory played for sex appeal, no maverick charm, just a lonely, socially awkward woman who is very good at reading people precisely because she's spent a lifetime being underestimated by them. Ann Cleeves built the series around procedural rigor grounded in real police work and a strong sense of place — the bleak, beautiful…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9798885781985
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781509889624