Author: Ann Cleeves
Published: September 3rd 2019 by Minotaur Books
Format: eBook, 384 pages
Genre: Police Procedural
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for an opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: Two Rivers #1
Can a book be minimalist and over descriptive at the same time? In the sparseness of this book, you will find the complexity that is DI Matthew Venn, a man raised in a strict religious sect who was shunned when he married Jonathan Church. Opposites in so many ways, Matthew and Jonathan’s worlds collide when young women, each diagnosed with Down syndrome, are missing from an arts center that Jonathan manages.
The story gets twisty and the reader is expected to put a few ragged edges together, but in doing so, you are left with an encompassing story of a group of dedicated people trying to link a body on the beach with the missing girls and how their stories are intertwined.
This is not a quick read. The setting is dark and drab but at the same time all-encompassing. It is an odd collaboration of people, places, and cultures, yet the reader is inexplicably pulled by the snippets of interpersonal relationships which are drawing people apart yet bring them together.
The story gets twisty and the reader is expected to put a few ragged edges together, but in doing so, you are left with an encompassing story of a group of dedicated people trying to link a body on the beach with the missing girls and how their stories are intertwined.
This is not a quick read. The setting is dark and drab but at the same time all-encompassing. It is an odd collaboration of people, places, and cultures, yet the reader is inexplicably pulled by the snippets of interpersonal relationships which are drawing people apart yet bring them together.
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