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Join bestselling and prolific author Ann Cleeves as she presents the latest instalment of her gripping Two Rivers series, The Dying Light (Raincoast). Detective Matthew Venn must solve a mysterious death in a luxury holiday home while caught between a powerful family’s secrets and a powder keg of local tensions.
Included in TIFA 2026 Festival Passes, on sale August 13, 2026; single tickets available September 3, 2026.
Ann Cleeves, New York Times bestselling author of the Vera and Shetland series, returns with the fourth Two Rivers mystery featuring detective Matthew Venn who must solve a mysterious death in a luxury holiday home.
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 a lavish holiday home in North Devon, and her best friend is missing.
Published by Pan Macmillan
Ann Cleeves is the bestselling author of more than thirty-five 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's Vera, Shetland, and The Long Call.
Venue
Isabel Bader Theatre
93 Charles St West, Toronto, ON