Ann Cleeves Shetland Series 8 Books Collection Set

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Ann Cleeves Shetland Series 8 Books Collection Set

Ann Cleeves Shetland Series 8 Books Collection Set

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RAVEN BLACK, the first of the series, won the CWA Gold Dagger, and was adapted as a radio show in both the UK and Germany. After a landslide caused by torrential rain, Jimmy Perez realises there was a dark-haired woman in the wreckage. Harbour Street is the next spellbinding installment in Ann Cleeves' series of crime novels about Vera Stanhope, played in the TV detective drama VERA by Brenda Blethyn. Thin Air A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Unst, Shetland's most northerly island, to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends to a Shetlander. Now, as George and Molly Palmer Jones reconstruct Ursula’s last days, it becomes clear that her sharp eyes and long memory had posed a deadly threat not only to Marcus, but to his chilly wife, his alienated offspring, and others.

But it is midsummer, an unsettling time when the sun never really sets in Shetland and nothing is quite as it seems .In The Rising Tide, a group of teenagers spent a weekend on Holy Island: that was fifty years ago, but it forged a bond that has lasted a lifetime. But when detective Jimmy Perez and his colleagues from the mainland insist on opening out the investigation, a veil of suspicion and fear is thrown over the entire community. Afraid they will freeze, Vera takes the child and drives on, arriving at Brockburn, a run-down stately home she immediately recognizes as the house her father Hector grew up in. Local detective Jimmy Perez offers his expertise to help solve the case, which involves a scandal and a story that many residents wish to keep buried. When Jimmy Morrissey, England’s celebrated conservation conscience, kills himself with an overdose of antidepressants, the whole country mourns with his grieving widow.

ITV's DCI Vera Stanhope, played by the one and only Brenda Blethyn (pictured above) heads to Lkndisfarne to solve the mystery in in a feature-length adaptation of The Rising Tide, which will be broadcast ;ater this year. Raven Black was shortlisted for the Martin Beck award for best translated crime novel in Sweden in 200. The Two Rivers region isn’t as idyllic as tourists might think, and his investigations will lead him back into the strict evangelical community he once left behind.

From Ann Cleeves -- New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows -- comes the stunning tenth Vera Stanhope novel, The Rising Tide, a powerful novel about guilt, betrayal, and the . As Perez investigates, he finds himself mired in the hidden secrets of the small biddista community. An English family moves to the Shetland Islands, hoping to give their autistic son a better, calmer life. The second installment of the Shetland Island Quartet is a must-read for fans of Ann Cleeves and international crime fiction.

A man with an albatross tattoo on his neck has been found murdered; stabbed to death on a beach near Matthew's home.George and Molly Palmer-Jones are an elderly couple who spend most of their time traveling around the English countryside bird watching. But the party’s over when Mick the introvert who surprisingly got the girl they all wanted years ago is murdered. This author, whether a rising star or a seasoned veteran, has crafted the pages that whisk readers away on this series' journey. Wild Fire is now available in both UK and US in a variety of formats: on publication it went straight to number one in the Bookseller's weekly ranking of best-selling e-books!

And then there is Grace Fulwell, a strange, uncommunicative young woman with plenty of her own secrets to hide. Arriving at the scene, DI Vera Stanhope is relieved to have an excuse to escape the holiday festivities. It is a place where traditions are valued and celebrated, but new technologies and ways of working are also embraced. As local residents are forced to share their private lives and those of their loved ones, sinister secrets are slowly unearthed.They were the only residents, there was no mains electricity or water and access to the mainland was at low tide across the shore. When she finds her beloved cats and some protected wildfowl dead of illegal poison, she angrily threatens to expose her landlord, politician Marcus Grenville, as an anti-p. an atmospheric police procedural that builds on the other books while introducing fascinating suspects. Eleanor's interest in a local ghost legend seemed unhealthy to her friends, but the detectives suspect there may be more to her sudden death.



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