*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.
Review
Praise for Cold Earth :
"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."β Publishers Weekly
"The Shetland Islands provide a stunningly atmospheric setting for the complicated hero [Perez]βs latest procedural, a challenge he meets with determination and more than a little angst."β 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."β Library Journal
Praise for the Shetland Island series:
"Ann Cleeves confirms that she is the best living evoker of landscape with Cold Earth."β The Guardian , Best Crime Books and Thrillers of 2016
"Nothing short of riveting." βLouise Penny
"In true Christie fashion, Cleeves once more pulls the wool over our eyes with cunning and conviction." βColin Dexter, author of the Inspector Morse series
"Intricate and engrossing...offers readers the pleasures of the traditional locked room/isolated island mystery." β The Washington Post Book World
"A key feature of the best crime writing is a vivid sense of place, and Cleeves gives us Shetland in all its rugged, rain-swept splendour, an island where if everyone doesnβt know everyone else, itβs only a matter of time."β Irish Times
"This sixth in the series of Jimmy Perez Shetland mysteries is every bit as good as we have come to expect from Cleeves." βReviewing The Evidence
"Cleeves excels in capturing Shetlandβs stark, harsh beauty: the windswept land, the gray churning ocean, and hovering clouds. The often gloomy landscape is the perfect setting for tragic death by murder. Always eerie and haunting (thanks to the ghost of Peerie Lizzie) and certainly mysterious, Thin Air is perhaps the best and most compelling in the series so far." βCurled Up
About the Author
ANN CLEEVES is the multi-million copy bestselling author behind two hit television seriesβthe BBCβs Shetland , starring Douglas Henshall, and ITVβs Vera , starring Academy Award Nominee Brenda Blethynβboth of which are watched and loved in the US. Her brand new Two Rivers series will launch in September 2019, with The Long Call.
Shetland is available in the US on Netflix, Amazon Video, Britbox, and PBS, and Vera is available on Hulu, Amazon Video, BritBox, and PBS.
The first Shetland novel, Raven Black , won the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel, and Ann was awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger in 2017. She lives in the UK.
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