What is The Long Call about?

Detective Matthew Venn returns to North Devon to investigate the murder of a man found stabbed on the beach. The case takes him back into the strict evangelical community he left behind.

Do I need to read anything before The Long Call?

No. The book opens with Matthew Venn at his father's funeral and introduces everything a new reader needs.

Is The Long Call a TV series?

Yes. The publisher notes that the book is now a major ITV series.

The Long Call

A detective returns to the community he fled, and to a murder on the North Devon coast.

Reading guide

This book can be read on its own. The story opens with Matthew Venn at his father's funeral and needs no earlier knowledge of the characters.

Detective Matthew Venn returns to North Devon to lead his first major case in the Two Rivers region. A man with an albatross tattooed on his neck is found stabbed on the beach near Matthew's home, and the investigation leads him back into the evangelical community he left years before.

Description

Where the Taw and the Torridge meet the sea in North Devon, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church while his father's funeral goes on without him. He walked away from the strict evangelical community he grew up in and lost his family along with it. Now he is back, leading his first major case in the Two Rivers region.

When a man with an albatross tattooed on his neck is found stabbed on the beach near Matthew's new home, the investigation takes him straight back into the world he left behind. Ann Cleeves, creator of Vera Stanhope and Jimmy Perez, sets this quiet, troubled detective against a coast less idyllic than the tourists suppose. The book has since been adapted as a major ITV series.

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