The heron's cry / Ann Cleeves.

By: Cleeves, Ann [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Cleeves, Ann. Two rivers series ; 2.Publisher: London : Macmillan, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 381 pages : 1 map ; 24 cmContent type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781509889679Subject(s): Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Physicians -- Death -- Fiction | Artists -- England -- Fiction | Glass blowing and working -- Fiction | Police -- England -- Devon -- Fiction | Detectives -- England -- Devon -- Fiction | Devon (England) -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction.DDC classification: 823.92 Summary: 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.
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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.

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