I also enjoy the setting descriptions of the towns, farms and land. The team is smart and uses good strategies to solve the murders but the pace of murders is too many too fast Of course, not everyone tells the truth. There is also the attitudes with the fun way they speak. I enjoy the British terminology and idiosyncrasies. Vicky does a lot of computer research and camera review work. There’s Ross who is a favorite of Matthew’s boss, and is bucking to move up, but needs more skills he thinks he’s better than he is. There’s Jem who is a single parent of two teens. The head of the team in Matthew, and his husband, Jonathon runs an art centre. The foundation of the series is the characters in the police department along with their family and friends. I was so happy to continue Two Rivers to see the characters and meet new ones. Matthew soon finds himself treading carefully through the lies that fester at the heart of his community and a case that is dangerously close to home. Then another body is found-killed in a similar way. Matthew is unnerved, though, to find that she is a close friend of Jonathan, his husband. He's a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder-Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed with a shard of one of his glassblower daughter's broken vases.ĭr Yeo seems an unlikely murder victim. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists.

North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Published by Minotaur Books on September 7, 2021Īmazon, Audible, Audiobook, Barnes & Noble, Apple This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

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