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Ann Cleeves The Dying Light

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Ann Cleeves The Dying Light
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From Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller Ann Cleeves comes the fourth Matthew Venn mystery, in which a tragic death at the luxurious holiday home of an ambitious politician puts Venn and his team in the media spotlight

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Binding: Paperback

Date Published: 29 Sep 2026

'Everything Ann Cleeves writes is incredible' - Richard Osman

The deadliest truths are those in the shadows . . .

Detective Matthew Venn is called in to investigate a puzzling death. The body of a young woman has been found in the swimming pool of Tide House, a luxurious holiday home in North Devon, and her best friend is missing. The property belongs to rising political star Paul Armstrong and the case quickly draws intense media scrutiny.

As a scorching heat wave rages and further tragedy strikes, Venn and his team begin questioning a community brimming with secrets. The dead woman and her friend had been spotted at a nearby music festival the day before, an event which brought locals and outsiders together - some of whom may have been more connected with the Armstrongs than first thought.

Caught between a powerful family's secrets and a powder keg of local tensions, Venn must navigate a treacherous path. Knowing that the real answers lie not in what people say, but in the silence that they keep . . .

Detective Matthew Venn of The Raging Storm returns in the fourth novel in the Two Rivers series from Ann Cleeves, the number one bestselling author and creator of Vera and Shetland.

Praise for Ann Cleeves:

'Ann Cleeves is a stone-cold genius' - Marian Keyes
'Ann Cleeves routinely makes the difficult look easy' - David Baldacci
'The Queen of the detective novel, thrilling millions of readers' - Daily Express

About the Author

Ann Cleeves is the author of forty critically acclaimed novels, and in 2017 was awarded the highest accolade in crime writing, the CWA Diamond Dagger. She is the creator of popular detectives Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez and Matthew Venn, who can be found on television in ITV's Vera, BBC One's Shetland and ITV's The Long Call respectively. The TV series and the books they are based on have become international sensations, capturing the minds of millions worldwide.

Ann worked as a probation officer, bird observatory cook and auxiliary coastguard before she started writing. She also spends her time advocating for reading to improve health and wellbeing and supporting access to books. In 2021, her Reading for Wellbeing project launched with local authorities across the North East. In 2022, she was awarded an OBE for her services to reading and libraries. She lives in Northumberland.

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In The Dying Light, we say hello once more to Detective Matthew Venn in a twisty, solemn case involving the murders of two very different teenage girls with lots of potential suspects and motives set around a touristy town that also holds its own secrets. Ann Cleeves routinely makes the difficult look easy, and here the plot sails along with purpose and gravitas, the characters shine and manipulate, and the prose is as first-rate as ever. Whatever Cleeves comes up with next, I will be reading it. And so should you. -- David Baldacci
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Ann Cleeves is a stone-cold genius -- Marian Keyes, My Favourite Mistake
The Queen of the detective novel, thrilling millions of readers * Daily Express *
One of the best natural writers of detective fiction * Sunday Express *

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