Come Death and High Water cover art

Come Death and High Water

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Come Death and High Water

By: Ann Cleeves
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet again

Come Death and High Water is the second mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.

The picturesque privately-owned island of Gillibry off the North Devon coast turns out to be the perfect site for a murder . . .

A routine weekend visit by the Gillibry Bird Observatory Trust is made memorable by the owner’s announcement that he is going to sell the island. A sale would mean the end of the Observatory, which for some of the birders made life worth living. A fire in Charlie Todd’s cottage added to their distress. And when, next morning, after a fierce storm, they found Charlie dead in a bird hide, their pleasant September weekend assumed a dangerous new face.

Charlie Todd’s murder could have been the deed of any member of the Trust. And it falls to one of their own, George Palmer-Jones, to unravel the identity of killer within their midst . . .

 Amateur Sleuths Cosy Crime Crime Fiction Detective Fiction Genre Fiction Mystery Small Town & Rural Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Murder Astronomy

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Murderer's Son cover art
Detective Sebastian Clifford, Books 1-3 cover art
Admit to Murder cover art
A Long Time Dead cover art
Criminal Damage cover art
Beneath the Abbey Wall cover art
The Landscape of Death cover art
The Yellow Brick Road cover art
The Infirmary: A DCI Ryan Mystery (Multicast Drama) cover art
The Body in the Marsh cover art
The Night She Lied cover art
The Lost Girls of Penzance cover art
The Third Sin cover art Detective Tom Janssen Hidden Norfolk, Books 1-3 cover art
The Dark Tide cover art
Wycliffe and the House of Fear cover art

Critic reviews

. . . a perfectly fresh, contemporary crime story meshing interesting characters with plenty of fascinating ornithological detail
A fine writer
Cleeves is quietly carving out a reputation as the new Queen of Crime
Ann Cleeves is a skilful technician, keeping our interest alive and building slowly up to the denouement. Her easy use of language and clever story construction make her one of the best natural writers of detective fiction
Nobody does unsettling undercurrents better than Ann Cleeves (Val McDermid)
Ann Cleeves has an enviable talent . . . I love these books
All stars
Most relevant
These are good books, but they are not Ann Cleeves best work, give me a Vera any day!

Great

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.