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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. Once loved and cherished, the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too. Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to...
2) 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
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder--Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed with a shard of one of his glassblower daughter's broken vases. Dr Yeo seems an unlikely murder victim. He's a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter. Matthew is unnerved, though,...
4) 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 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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home in the hills. Though the road is familiar, she misses a turning and soon becomes lost and disorientated. A car has skidded off the narrow road in front of her, its door left open, and she stops to help. There is no driver to be seen, so Vera assumes that the owner has gone to find help. But a cry calls her back: a toddler is strapped in the back seat. Vera...
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...
8) 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.
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...
10) 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,...
11) 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...
12) 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...
Author
Series
Stephen Ramsay novels volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
251 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
14) Wild fire
Author
Series
Shetland mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 398 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Hoping for a fresh start, an English family moves to the remote Shetland islands, eager to give their autistic son a better life. But when a young nanny's body is found hanging in the barn beside their home, rumors of her affair with the husband spread like wildfire. As suspicion and resentment of the family blazes in the community, Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate. He knows it will mean his boss, Willow Reeves, returning...
15) The rising tide
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend that they lost to the rising causeway tide five years later. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends are hiding, and whether the events of many years before...
16) The seagull
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
17) 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...
18) The raging storm
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Fierce winds, dark secrets, deadly intentions. When Jem Rosco--sailor, adventurer, and legend--blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity in their midst. But just as abruptly as he arrived, Rosco disappears again, and soon his lifeless body is discovered in a dinghy, anchored off Scully Cove, a place with legends of its own. This is an uncomfortable case for Detective Inspector...
19) The crow trap
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
Publisher
Bello Books
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
189 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
For Dorothea Cassidy, Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the one day she could call her own, and would plan to visit people she wanted to see as a welcome respite from the routine duties that being a vicar's wife entailed. But one Thursday in June was to be more special than any other. It was the day that Dorothea Cassidy was strangled. As the small town of Otterbridge prepares for its summer carnival, Inspector Stephen Ramsay...
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