The murder of teenager Catherine Ross sends shockwaves through a small Shetland community, and most of the fingers of blame point to loner and simpleton Magnus Tait. But Catherine's vicious and sudden demise has thrown a veil of suspicion over everyone who knew her, and one local detective is keeping all options open.
Isla de Shetland Serie
Esta serie de novelas de misterio transporta a los lectores a las remotas y escarpadas Islas Shetland, donde se desarrollan investigaciones tranquilas pero intensas. Las historias se centran en el Inspector Jefe Jimmy Perez, un nativo que comprende profundamente la comunidad unida. Con un escenario distintivamente atmosférico que recuerda a Escandinavia y una rica representación de la vida isleña, estos relatos ofrecen una visión fascinante del crimen y la condición humana.
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A stunning second installment in the acclaimed Shetland Island Quartet, White Nights is sure to garner American raves for international sensation Ann Cleeves. This series is the basis for the hit BBC show Shetland,starring Douglas Henshall, which attracted over 12 million viewers in its first two nights on the air. Raven Black received crime fiction's highest monetary honor, the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award. Now Detective Jimmy Perez is back in an electrifying sequel. It's midsummer in the Shetland Islands, the time of the white nights, when birds sing at midnight and the sun never sets. Artist Bella Sinclair throws an elaborate party to launch an exhibition of her work at The Herring House, a gallery on the beach. The party ends in farce when one the guests, a mysterious Englishman, bursts into tears and claims not to know who he is or where he's come from. The following day the Englishman is found hanging from a rafter, and Detective Jimmy Perez is convinced that the man has been murdered. He is reinforced in this belief when Roddy, Bella's musician nephew, is murdered, too. But the detective's relationship with Fran Hunter may have clouded his judgment, for this is a crazy time of the year when night blurs into day and nothing is quite as it seems.
Red Bones
- 391 páginas
- 14 horas de lectura
When a young archaeologist discovers a set of human remains, the locals are intrigued. Is it an ancient find—or a more contemporary mystery? Then an elderly woman is fatally shot and Ann Cleeves’s popular series detective Jimmy Perez is called in. As claustrophobic mists swirl around the island, Inspector Perez finds himself totally in the dark. This series is the basis for the hit BBC show Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall, which attracted over 12 million viewers in its first two nights on the air.
Fair Isle feels cut off from the rest of the world because of storms, when a woman's body is discovered at a bird observatory, with feathers threaded through her hair. Detective Jimmy Perez has no support from the mainland and must investigate the old-fashioned way
When the body of journalist Jerry Markham is found in a traditional Shetland boat, outside the house of the Fiscal down at the Marina, young Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted in from the Hebrides to head up the investigation.
In the sixth installment of the Shetland series, a group of university friends travels from London to Unst, Shetland's northernmost island, to celebrate a wedding. However, the festivities take a dark turn when Eleanor, one of the friends, mysteriously disappears during the party. The next day, her friend Polly receives an email that appears to be a suicide note, suggesting Eleanor will never be found alive. Soon after, Eleanor's body is discovered near a cliffside loch. Detectives Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves are called to investigate the case. Before her disappearance, Eleanor had been fixated on the ghost of a local child who drowned in the 1920s, raising concerns among her friends about her mental state. As the detectives delve deeper, they suspect that Eleanor's death may be linked to a long-buried secret tied to the island's history. This gripping narrative examines the complex interplay between tradition and modernity within the community, revealing how past events can have profound and tragic repercussions in the present. The Shetland series also includes titles such as Raven Black, White Nights, Red Bones, Blue Lightning, and Dead Water.
In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main Lerwick-Sumburgh road and sweeps down to the sea. At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Jimmy Perez watches the flood of mud and peaty water smash through a croft house in its path. Everyone thinks the croft is uninhabited, but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress. In his mind, she shares his Mediterranean ancestry and soon he becomes obsessed with tracing her identity. Then it emerges that she was already dead before the landslide hit the house. Perez knows he must find out who she was, and how she died.
Wild Fire is the eighth, and final book, in Ann Cleeves' bestselling Shetland series - a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall as Jimmy Perez. Shetland: Welcoming. Wild. Remote. Drawn in by the reputation of the islands, a new English family move to the area, eager to give their autistic son a better life. But when a young nanny's body is found hanging in the barn of their home, rumours of her affair with the husband begin to spread like wild fire. With suspicion raining down on the family, DI Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate. For him it will mean returning to the islands of his on-off lover and boss Willow Reeves, who will run the case. Perez is already facing the most disturbing investigation of his career, when Willow drops a bombshell that will change his life forever. Is he ready for what is to come?
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When young teacher Anna Blackwell is found dead in her home, the police think her death was suicide or a tragic accident. After all, Stonebridge is a quiet country village in the Scottish Borders, where murders just don't happen. But Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez soon arrives from far-away Shetland when his ex-wife, Sarah, asks him to look into the case. The local gossips are saying that her new husband, Tom, was having an affair with Anna. Could Tom have been involved with her death? Sarah refuses to believe it - but needs proof. Anna had been a teacher. She must have loved kids. Would she kill herself knowing there was nobody to look after her daughter? She had seemed happier than ever before she died. And to Perez, this suggests not suicide, but murder ..
