The Long Contact may be the captivating first novel in the Two Streams series from Weekend Instances bestseller and creator of Vera and Shetland, Ann Cleeves.

In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and come across the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father’s funeral occurs. The day Matthew converted his back within the strict evangelical community where he was raised, he lost his family too.

Now he’s back again, not only to mourn his father far away, but to take charge of his first major case in the Two Rivers region; a complicated place nearly as idyllic as travelers suppose.

A body has been found on the beach near to Matthew’s new home: a guy with the tattoo of the albatross on his neck, stabbed to loss of life.

Locating the killer is definitely Venn’s only focus, and his team’s investigation will take him straight back into the community he left out, as well as the deadly secrets that lurk there.