# The Heron's Cry by Ann Cleeves (Hardback)

**Ann Cleeves, _New York Times_ bestselling author and creator of the Shetland and Vera series, returns to North Devon in _The Heron's Cry,_ the second book in the Two Rivers series featuring Detective Matthew Venn, following _The Long Call._** North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder - Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed with a shard of one of his glassblower daughter's broken vases.Dr Yeo seems an unlikely murder victim. He's a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter. Matthew is unnerved though to find that she is a close friend of Jonathan, his husband.Then another body is found, killed in a similar way. Matthew finds himself treading carefully through the lies that fester at the heart of his community and a case that is dangerously close to home._The Long Call_ and _The Heron's Cry_ are part of Ann Cleeves' Two Rivers series and have been recently commissioned for ITV.

## Details

- **Price:** 18.5 GBP
- **Vendor:** Pan Macmillan
- **Tags:** All Books, Fiction, Thrillers

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