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Cleeves, Ann, 1954-

The heron's cry / Ann Cleeves. - London : Macmillan, 2021. - 381 pages : map ; 24 cm - Two rivers 2 . - Two rivers ; bk. 2 . - Cleeves, Ann. Two rivers series ; bk. 2. .

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. His daughter Eve is a glassblower, and the murder weapon is a shard of one of her 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.

ISBN: 9781509889679 1509889671

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Police--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Artists--Fiction.
Glass blowing and working--Fiction.
Serial murders--Fiction.
Truthfulness and falsehood--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Detective and mystery fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: 823.92