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A Shetland Mystery (Shetland Island Mysteries Book 7)
by Ann Cleeves
From Ann Cleeves, winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger Award, comes Cold Earth.
In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main road and sweeps down to the sea.
At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Jimmy Perez watches the flood of mud and water smash through a house in its path. Everyone thinks the home is uninhabited, but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress. Perez soon becomes obsessed with tracing her identity and realizes he must find out who she was and how she died.
Cold Earth is the seventh book in the beloved Shetland series, which is now a major success for the BBC.
"The stark Shetland landscape provides an atmospheric backdrop for Cleeves's complex, relatable characters, especially Perez, a kind man dealing with his own tragic past." ―Publishers Weekly
"The Shetland Islands provide a stunningly atmospheric setting for the complicated hero [Perez]'s latest procedural, a challenge he meets with determination and more than a little angst." ―Kirkus Reviews
"Plenty of suspects on a remote Scottish island mixed with the high quality of Cleeves's prose make this a solidly plotted whodunit for procedural and traditional mystery readers." ―Library Journal
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Ann Cleeves is the multi-million copy bestselling author behind two hit television series―Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall, and Vera, starring Academy Award Nominee Brenda Blethyn―both of which are watched and loved in the United States.
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