Q: What was your inspiration for "The Long Call"?Ĭleeves: "(It) came from a time that happened just after my husband died and I wanted to run away from home. It is her third series of books to be dramatised for television.īelow are excerpts edited for length and clarity. In an interview with Reuters, Cleeves spoke about her inspiration for the story, the first in her "Two Rivers" series of novels, and seeing her work adapted for the screen. The book, written after her husband Tim's death in 2017 and released in 2019, follows gay detective Matthew Venn as he returns to his old North Devon home, revisiting the community he was rejected from years ago and embarking on a major murder case. LONDON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - British crime writer Ann Cleeves turned to her teenage stomping ground on the southwest coast for inspiration for her novel "The Long Call", which airs in a new TV dramatisation from this week in the UK and North America.
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