The Raging Storm : A thrilling mystery from the bestselling author of ITVs The Long Call, featuring Detective Matthew Venn

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Author: Cleeves, Ann Of specific Gay & Lesbian interestPublished on 14 March 2024 by PAN MACMILLAN (Pan Books) in the United Kingdom as part of the Two Rivers series.Paperback | 41 6 pages196 x 130 x 27 | 282g Detective Matthew Venn returns in The Raging Storm, the next captivating novel in the Two Rivers series from Ann Cleeves, the number one bestselling author and creator of Vera and Shetland.When Jem Rosco – sailor, adventurer and local legend – blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity in their midst. The residents think nothing of it when Rosco disappears again; that’s the sort of man he is.Until the lifeboat is launched to a hoax call-out during a raging storm and his body is found in a dinghy, anchored off Scully Cove.This is an uncomfortable case for DI Matthew Venn. He came to the remote village as a child, its community populated by the Barum Brethren – a religious sect that he chose to leave behind. So, when superstition and rumour mix and another body is found in the cove, Matthew soon finds his judgement clouded.As the stormy winds howl and the village is cut off, Venn and his team start their investigation, little realizing their own lives might be in danger . . . Show more