The Long Call is the No.1 bestselling first novel in the Two Rivers series from Sunday Times bestseller and creator of Vera and Shetland; Ann Cleeves. 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 evangelical community in which he grew up; he lost his family too. Now he's back; not just to mourn his father at a distance; but to take charge of his first major case in the Two Rivers region; a complex place not quite as idyllic as tourists suppose. A body has been found on the beach near to Matthew's new home: a man with the tattoo of an albatross on his neck; stabbed to death. Finding the killer is Venn’s only focus; and his team’s investigation will take him straight back into the community he left behind; and the deadly secrets that lurk there.