On their first reunion, one of the participants, Isobel Hall, died when caught in the rising tide while crossing the causeway.

Raven Black was shortlisted for the Martin Beck award for best translated crime novel in Sweden in 200. If you've nar read this Newcastle (the toon) / Northumberland based series, eeee, howay man, you should because it’s canny and champion. Zu allen Figuren und speziell dem Polizeiteam fließen viele private Informationen ein, die für Spannung in allen Nebensträngen sorgen. From Ann Cleeves - New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows - comes the stunning tenth Vera Stanhope novel, The Rising Tide, a powerful novel about guilt, betrayal, and the longheld secrets people keep. Vera is a star of a protagonist, overweight, with a shambolic appearance that has her giving off the vibes of a bag lady, and here she is mistaken as a cleaner, not that it bothers her in the slightest.But when one of them is found hanged, after their first evening back together, the ghost of a death from 45 years earlier comes back to haunt them all. Tragedy followed at a reunion five years after they first started meeting when Isobel Hall, one of their friends, drowned in the rising tide on the causeway that leads to the island. Holy Island is the setting in The Rising Tide, where a group of now middle aged people who were students together many years before, meet up on the Island every five years for a reunion.

I suspect Ann Cleeves has persistent body image issues, and these emerge in her writing/character development. Und dennoch ist der ersten Vermutung, dass der Täter aus eben diesem Kreise stammt, nichts entgegenzusetzen. The mystery was also a little sub-par this time around in my opinion, and the ending was heartbreaking.Cleeves’ books are strongly character driven, and Holly Island becomes another character in this story. The almost rivalry between Joe and Holly works well and I like that this team isn’t the seamless group that other series have. Plus (and worse) there is some that awful fat-shaming bullshit AGAIN that I can only assume means Cleeves herself is fat-phobic because otherwise why would multiple characters repeatedly describe Vera's body in such mean ways? So it’s a nice, complex murder mystery, but it is Vera that draws the reader in, Vera who holds the reader’s attention. She’s put down the whole way through the book, with occasional mentions about how smart she is to, from what I gather, try and detract from the negative way she is described the rest of the time.

I think perhaps you should go and tell her, so she can be triumphant, and then start to get the investigation moving. I have enjoyed all the Vera books (as I also love the tv series--I hear Brenda Blethyn's voice now when I read the books) but this one is, I think, my favorite.If I have one criticism, it’s that the killer’s motive didn’t feel strong enough - it felt like a situation that could have been ridden out without resorting to murder. The island is atmospheric backdrop for the story with its ruins and religious history, landscape and wildlife and the shifting tides that make the causeway so dangerous to those who don’t pay attention to the them, and plays a very central and tragic part of the novel.