This change is attributed to a greater awareness of green issues and a general wish to protect the planet rather than the virus. But what secrets was he about to reveal that would raise the ire in someone so much that murder was the solution? It wasn't very interesting and if not for the obligation I felt having been given early access on NetGalley from the publisher, I wouldn't have finished the book.

Vera and her team interview and re-interview people who knew Rick and some surprising secrets are unearthed.Rick was a popular TV presenter who has recently been stood down by his network for allegations of sexual assault by an intern, so Vera wonders that one of his female victims could have exacted her own revenge. This kind of trite contrarianism in writing about sexual harassment and assault is so tiresome and lame and sad.

Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope is a great character and series and The Rising Tide is now my favorite of her novels. Good old Rick was also writing a book, with fictionalized events, that wasn't well received among his group of friends. I am late to the party of reading the Vera Stanhope series (not just watching the wonderful tv series).Es werden so viele verschiedene Möglichkeiten präsentiert, dass man sich als Leser ganz schön aufs Glatteis geschickt fühlt.

They reminisce and celebrate the school trip where they first met as teenagers at the Pilgrim’s House. Vera knows exactly how to lead her team to get the best out of each of them, and Cleeves doesn’t do things without having a purpose. Every five years the group of friends who had been there gets together to remember Isobel and what they all had had. The Rising Tide is another triumph for Vera and for Ann Cleeves, who provides such a compelling and ever-developing series set in such a fabulous part of the country. But with the latest installments, this Vera still seems someone similar to the tv series one and also separate at times.Holly is a wonderful but young police detective who is always looking for validation from Vera, her boss. But her team, and some of the suspects, know that she possesses a sharp intelligence and uncanny crime-solving instincts. Who doesn’t love ‘large and shabby’ Vera Stanhope, the blunt detective in Ann Cleeves’s Northumberland police procedurals? A group of friends who knew each other in grammar school gather every five years on Holy Island for a weekend together. The aging tribe meet at Pilgrims' House to light candles, reminisce over their years together at grammar school, and dine and drink heartily into the night.

Plus, the pacing was very, very slow, with frequent detours into the private thoughts of various characters. The Rising Tide is classic Cleeves: an atmospheric, gripping police procedural in which the environment is as deadly as the desperate murderer . Diese Romanreihe von Ann Cleeves ist also sehr geprägt von der erfahrenen Ermittlerin Vera Stanhope von der noch Northumbria Police.

A fabulous setting for a murder mystery, with its sudden fogs, and the dangers stemming from its rising tides. With gem-like precision, she has created a world that surrounds you like a chilly blanket on a frosty evening—a story that you’ll want to read straight through to its shocking ending. Ann's DI Vera Stanhope series of books is set in Northumberland and features the well loved detective along with her partner Joe Ashworth. They stay at Pilgrims’ House, an austere setting and former nunnery, the scene of their initial getaway when they were teenagers. Ann's success was announced at the 2006 Dagger Awards ceremony at the Waldorf Hilton, in London's Aldwych, on Thursday 29 June 2006.