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The Dying Light

A heatwave, a dead woman in a luxury pool and a missing friend.
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This is the only title listed here, and the premise and main characters are introduced from the start, so it can be read on its own.
Detective Matthew Venn is called to Tide House, a luxury holiday home on the North Devon coast, where a young woman has been found dead in the swimming pool. Her best friend is missing, the house belongs to the rising political star Paul Armstrong, and the press is quick to take an interest. As the heat intensifies and further trouble follows, Venn and his team question a community with secrets of its own, including people who may have known the Armstrongs better than they admit.

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A young woman is found dead in the swimming pool of Tide House, a luxurious holiday home on the North Devon coast, and her best friend has vanished. The house belongs to Paul Armstrong, a rising political star, so Detective Matthew Venn works under the glare of the press while a heatwave bakes the county.

Ann Cleeves sets a powerful family's secrets against simmering local resentments. Venn is careful and watchful, and he has to listen hardest to what people leave unsaid. It is a patient, atmospheric mystery for readers who like their crime rooted in a real place and driven by character, with the heat pressing in on every page.

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