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The Rising Tide: A dark, atmospheric mystery from bestseller Ann Cleeves, featuring Vera Stanhope, star of ITV's Vera

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Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope is a great character and series and The Rising Tide is now my favorite of her novels. An episode of ITV's VERA, adapted from Ann Cleeves' novel The Rising Tide by Sally Abbott, was broadcast as a Christmas special on 26th December 2023; watch it again on ITVx.

For those who both read the books and watch the television series, it must be said that it’s a pleasure to still have Joe Ashworth as Vera’s second in the books—“her surrogate son, and her conscience. Cleeves’ books are strongly character driven, and Holly Island becomes another character in this story.Vera is a wonderful character, while she doesn't fit the regular mold of brilliant detective it is quickly discovered that one underestimates her at their own peril.

I enjoy mysteries-with-more (the more being strong, well-developed characters) – and this series definitely fills that bill, although this one (until the twist at the end) really just tread familiar ground. There's a highly dramatic all-action finale before the killer is revealed in a credible and satisfactory way. in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter.

Due to her sloppy appearance, people tend to underestimate her as a detective but come to admire her sharp intelligence and crime-solving skills.

Ann Cleeves's latest DI Vera Stanhope is a chilling and shocker of an addition to her wonderful Northumberland set series.A group of local sixth formers and their trendy young teacher first visited the island 50 years ago. I think perhaps you should go and tell her, so she can be triumphant, and then start to get the investigation moving.

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