Internationally bestselling author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope series, Ann Cleeves returns with the first book in a new series, set in North Devon and featuring Detective Matthew Venn. In this rural idyll, crime is always there waiting to rise from the water. In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict