The Raging Storm

Ann Cleeves

Macmillan

£22.00

Lovers of Ann Cleeves’ ‘Shetland’ series of detective novels may already be aware of her more recent ‘Two Rivers’ series. They’re set in North Devon and feature quiet, troubled, detective inspector Matthew Venn, who lives at Crow Point near Barnstaple with his husband Jonathan. The Two Rivers are the Taw and the Torridge where Ann Cleeves grew up. This third volume begins with the unexplained arrival of celebrity ocean voyager Jem Rosco in a dourly religious coastal community which is also a lifeboat station. Who was Jem hoping to meet and why does he end up dead in a rubber dinghy moored in an inaccessible rocky cove?

A novel of detection rather than adventure, likely to become part of a future ITV series.