Red Bones: The Shetland Series 3
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4.4 • 102 Ratings
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD 2017
The third book in Ann Cleeves' Shetland series featuring Detective Jimmy Perez.
NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMA
Sometimes the dead won't stay buried...
When an elderly woman is shot in a tragic accident, Shetland detective Jimmy Perez is called to investigate.
The sparse landscape and the emptiness of the sea have bred a fierce and secretive people. As Jimmy looks to the islanders for answers, he finds instead two feuding families whose envy, greed and bitterness have lasted generations.
Then there's another death and, as the spring weather shrouds the island in claustrophobic mists, Jimmy must dig up old secrets to stop a new killer from striking again ...
PRAISE FOR RED BONES
"Excellent ... As in the best traditional English village whodunits, the killer lurks among the townspeople, but his or her identity still comes as a shock." Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Cleeves's excellent third Shetland Island thriller (after White Nights), Insp. Jimmy Perez investigates the shooting death of Mima Wilson, the grandmother of Perez's bumbling if well-meaning underling, Sandy Wilson. While some believe Sandy's cousin Ronald accidentally shot Mima late one night near her croft on Whalsay, a small Shetland island, Perez has his doubts. Mima's land is the site of an archeological excavation led by eager Ph.D. student Hattie James, who recently uncovered a skeleton of indeterminate origin. When another body turns up near the dig site, Perez becomes more suspicious, even though the second death is an apparent suicide. With Sandy's help, he begins to unravel a knot of tall tales and family betrayals that stretches back to a WWII resistance movement known as the Shetland Bus. As in the best traditional English village whodunits, the killer lurks among the townspeople, but his or her identity still comes as a shock.
Customer Reviews
Great read on my daily commute
Keep me guessing as to who & why. The story painted “a mind canvass” of the wild rugged beauty of the Shetlands and its people.
White nights
Great read