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1) Thin air
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Series
Language
English
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"Ann Cleeves is back with the sixth book in her Shetland series featuring Inspector Jimmy Perez, whom readers will remember from Raven Black, White Nights, Red Bones, Blue Lightning, and Dead Water. A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Shetland to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends. But, one of them, Eleanor, disappears--apparently into thin air. It's mid-summer, a time of light nights and...
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Three very different women come together to complete an environmental survey. Three women who, in some way or another, know the meaning of betrayal....For team leader Rachael Lambert the project is the perfect opportunity to rebuild her confidence after a double-betrayal by her lover and boss, Peter Kemp. Botanist Anne Preece, on the other hand, sees it as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. And then there is Grace Fulwell, a strange,...
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Inspector Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, she wonders briefly if, for once in her life, she's uncovered a simple death from natural causes. But a closer inspection reveals bruises around the victim's throat, and Vera quickly realizes that she has a murder on her hands.
4) Dead water
Author
Series
Shetland mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ann Cleeves returns to her critically acclaimed Shetland Island series with this stunning mystery featuring Inspector Jimmy Perez, who readers will remember from Raven Black, White Nights, Red Bones, and Blue Lightning. When the body of a journalist is found, Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted from outside to head up the investigation. Inspector Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop, but his local knowledge is needed in this case, and he...
5) Cold earth
Author
Series
Shetland mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
6) The seagull
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 8
Language
English
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"A visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detective superintendent, and now inmate, John Brace. Brace was convicted of corruption and involvement in the death of a gamekeeper – and Vera played a key part in his downfall.
Now, Brace promises Vera information about the disappearance of Robbie Marshall, a notorious wheeler-dealer who disappeared in the mid-nineties, if she will look out for his daughter...
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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It has been 10 years since Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of 15-year-old Abigail Mantel. Now new evidence has proved Jeanie's innocence. On hearing the news, Emma Bennett is haunted once more by memories of her vibrant best friend, Abigail, and by the thought that her killer is still at large. As Inspector Vera Stanhope makes fresh enquiries amongst the residents of Elvet, the small East Yorkshire village where Emma and Abigail grew up, inevitably,...
8) Raven black
Author
Series
Shetland mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
1st St. Martin's Minotaur pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies buried beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a vivid splash of colour on the white ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbour Catherine Ross. As Fran opens her mouth to scream, the ravens continue their deadly dance. The locals on the quiet island stubbornly focus their gaze on one man loner and simpleton Magnus Tait. But when...
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
Life seems perfect in Valley Farm, a quiet community in Northumberland. Then a shocking discovery shatters the silence. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter, a young ecologist named Patrick, to look after the place while they're away. But Patrick is found dead by the side of the lane into the valley - a beautiful, lonely place to die. DI Vera Stanhope arrives on the scene, with her detectives Holly and Joe. When they look...
10) Red bones
Author
Series
Shetland mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 391 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Harbour Street
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 6
Publisher
Pan Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The shouts and laughter of Christmas revelers break the muffled silence as Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter Jessie are swept along onto the Metro. But when the train is stopped due to the bad weather, Jessie notices that one lady hasn't left the train: Margaret Krukowski has been fatally stabbed. Why would anyone want to harm this reserved, elegant lady? Arriving at the scene, DI Vera Stanhope is relieved to have an excuse to escape...
12) White nights
Author
Series
Shetland mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st Minotaur Books paperback ed.
Physical Desc
391 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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,...
13) Hidden depths
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Investigator Vera Stanhope searches for a young man's killer and uncovers a small town's secrets.
"On a hot summer on the Northumberland coast, Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son murdered. Luke has been strangled, laid out in a bath of water and covered with wild flowers. On a hot summer on the Northumberland coast, Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son murdered. Luke has been strangled, laid out...
14) The glass room
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 5
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
373 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her hippy neighbours keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation so she has more tolerance for them than most. When one of them goes missing she feels duty-bound to find out what happened. But her path leads her to more than a missing friend ... It's an easy job to track the young woman down to the Writer's House, a country retreat where aspiring authors gather to workshop and work through...
15) Blue lightning
Author
Series
Shetland mysteries volume 4
Language
English
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Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to Fair Isle to introduce his fiancée, Fran, to his parents. It's a community where everyone knows each other, and strangers, while welcomed, are still viewed with a degree of mistrust.
Challenging to live on at the best of times, with the autumn storms raging, the island feels cut off from the rest of the world. Trapped, tension is high and tempers become frayed.
Enough...
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