The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope)

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A foggy atmosphere that seems to manipulate both time and dimension obscures allegiances between local people who are deeply bound by the gravitational pull of their shared secrets, a group of old schoolmates’ with a seeming inability to transform itself. If you've nar read this Newcastle (the toon) / Northumberland based series, eeee, howay man, you should because it’s canny and champion. It was as inevitable as the water, which twice a day slid across the sand and mud of the shore until the causeway was covered. Had that been the moment when he’d changed from a selfish, self-opinionated, edgy young man to a person of faith?

The obvious suspects are the reunion participants followed by Rick's supervisors, co-workers, acquaintances, and so on. She went on to say that she misses her dog Jack, who can’t be with her in the North East for all of that time. She said: “Everyone needs a huge amount of stamina to get through long days of filming with often a lot of travel to and from set. He remembered the babies, who’d had no experience of life at all, the young who’d had no opportunity to change and grow.She’s brilliantly intuitive, instinctive, a little bit manipulative of her team (in a good way) and her affection for her team especially DS Joe Ashcroft is almost transparent. THE RISING TIDE is yet another example of Cleeves’ skillful writing, especially including a reference to COVID without dwelling on it. She went on to set up reading groups in prisons as part of the Inside Books project, became Cheltenham Literature Festival's first reader-in-residence and still enjoys working with libraries. And there had been a connection, so strong and fierce that after fifty years the tie was still there, unbroken and still worth celebrating.

Vera herself - a chunky woman with a hearty appetite who's totally unconcerned about fashion - is my favorite character. With gem-like precision, she has created a world that surrounds you like a chilly blanket on a frosty evening—a story that you’ll want to read straight through to its shocking ending. After a quick review of the scene and much to her delight, Vera is sure that it’s a murder and not a suicide.

Although the story is written with multiple points of view, it is Annie, the organizer and mainstay, who is the principal of the secondary characters and the one with the greatest depth of character—“The years, stretching ahead of her, seemed empty, devoid of light or fun.