The case gets even more uncomfortably close to home when Venn’s mother calls him about the disappearance of a girl who has a learning disability and also attended the centre. The only pointer to the man’s identity is an envelope that links him to the Woodyard Centre, a local daycare and drop-in space run by Venn’s husband Jonathan. On the day of his father’s funeral, Venn, shunned by the strict evangelical community in which he grew up for renouncing his beliefs and placed even further beyond the pale by his sexual orientation, is holding his own vigil outside the crematorium when he is called to investigate a corpse discovered on a nearby beach. It is set in north Devon, where the two rivers in question are the Taw and the Torridge, and features Detective Inspector Matthew Venn. The Long Call (Macmillan, £16.99) is the first book in the Two Rivers series from the bestselling author of the Vera and Shetland series, Ann Cleeves.
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