New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves returns with THE HERON'S CRY, the extraordinary follow-up to THE LONG CALL, soon to be a major TV series, alongside her two hit TV shows "Shetland" and "Vera."

North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. 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.

Dr. Yeo seems an unlikely murder victim. He's a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter. Matthew is unnerved, though, to find that she is a close friend of Jonathan, his husband.

Then another body is found --- killed in a similar way. 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.

DI Matthew Venn returns in THE HERON'S CRY, in Ann Cleeves powerful next novel, proving once again that she is a master of her craft.