<p><b>Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet again.</b><br><br><b><i>Come Death and High Water</i> is the second mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.</b><br><br>The picturesque privately owned island of Gillibry off the North Devon coast turns out to be the perfect site for a murder . . .<br><br>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 makes life worth living. A fire in Charlie Todd’s cottage adds to their distress. And when, next morning, after a fierce storm, they find Charlie dead in a bird hide, their pleasant September weekend assumes a dangerous new face.<br><br>
