HARDBACK BOOK OF THE MONTH
The Rising Tide
by Ann Cleeves
Published by Pan Macmillan
Price £20
Pages 384
ISBN 9781509889617
The bonds forged by a group of teenagers during a weekend at the Pilgrims’ House on Lindisfarne 50 years ago had lasted a lifetime. Every five years they’d meet to celebrate their friendship and remember the friend they’d lost when the tide had taken her as she drove across the causeway. Now they are back, but in shock when one of them is found hanged. Detective Vera Stanhope knows how the past intrudes on the present. Old secrets need investigating.
Ann Cleeves’ brilliant sense of place, eye for detail and