Now in his late 30s, the tightly wound and reserved Matthew works in nearby Barnstable and is married to Jon, who runs a multi-use community arts center called Woodward. As a teenager, Matthew rejected the teachings of the community and was banished. Matthew Venn, who spent his childhood among the Barum Brethren, a strict evangelical community led by the charismatic Dennis Salter. Set in Devon, England, this thoughtful series launch from bestseller Cleeves (the Vera Stanhope series) introduces Det. Now he's back, not just to mourn his father at a distance, but to take charge of his first major case in the Two Rivers region a complex place not quite as idyllic as tourists suppose.Ī body has been found on the beach near to Matthew's new home: a man with the tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death.įinding the killer is Venn’s only focus, and his team’s investigation will take him straight back into the community he left behind, and the deadly secrets that lurk there. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family too. In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. The Long Call is the No.1 bestselling first novel in the Two Rivers series from Sunday Times bestseller a nd creator of Vera and Shetland, Ann Cleeves. Now a major ITV series, The Long Call, adapted for television by screenwriter Kelly Jones and starring Ben Aldridge.
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