• The Girls on the Shore

  • By: Ann Cleeves
  • Narrated by: Jack Holden
  • Length: 52 mins
  • 3.1 out of 5 stars (65 ratings)

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The Girls on the Shore

By: Ann Cleeves
Narrated by: Jack Holden
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Publisher's summary

A USA Today Bestseller!

Ann Cleeves—New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows—returns with a darkly delicious short story, "The Girls on the Shore", featuring DI Matthew Venn from the Two Rivers series.

It was winter. Cold and clear, a different sort of day for this coast where the westerly winds usually blew rain and cloud.

Detective Inspector Matthew Venn is standing by his kitchen window when he first spots them. Two young girls, facing away from him, seemingly staring towards something in the distance. They are holding hands, and they are alone.

Though not a natural with children, Matthew knows he must find out why the girls are here, on a school day, unsupervised. And so he meets Olivia and Imogen, a pair of sisters whose secrets Matthew must uncover if he hopes to get them home.

©2022 Ann Cleeves (P)2022 Macmillan Audio

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Feeling robbed

This should have been free. Like others I assumed I was buying a novel not 30 minutes of an incomplete story.

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Incomplete

I blame it on dementia! Ann or the Macmillan editors are. Getting old. Ann Cleves has always been wonderful. This was a great beginning, but so dissatisfying because nothing happened next. It was chapters 1-2. And not 3-13! And then, no return option! Ug. Macmillan audio ripped us off.I will be calling Audible to get my credit back as this didn’t even get me through one commute.

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Just a bite

I have no complaints. A quick Matthew & Jen story to brighten your day. Sweet & delicious.

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Scam!

A very short story and the beginning !of a book that I have already read !!!
This offering was not worth the credit I spent. Shame on you audible!

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No Way - 30 minute PSA

What an unbelievable disappointment. I have been waiting for a new book to come out, and I cannot believe this was some 30 minute dramatized public service announcement. I feel very, very very let down.

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Don’t waste a credit

This isn’t a mystery, it’s a short story about some of the characters from the Matthew Ven series

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Total waste

What the hell? 3 chapters for one credit, what a rip off. Don't waste your time or credits.

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Irritating!

Cannot believe I am being charged 1credit for this nonsense, I would like my credit back. I have listened to all Vera, Shetland, and first Venn books, deserve better!!!!!

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I used a credit for this?

I guess I should not have just leapt at the name Ann Cleeves. This was a fragment. I am disappointed to say the least.

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What is the point?

I love Ann Cleeves, have read and own most of her books. What is this, besides 1.99? Detectives as social workers? The author stating the obvious? We learn nothing new about Matthew or Jen, and the reality, 99 times out of 100, is that Mom will return to her wealthy, powerful husband and be killed or commit suicide, Olivia will wind up in prison or a psych hospital, and Imogen will become a psychiatrist with a dark past. This little story is uninteresting and a huge disappointment.

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