Thin air A Shetland mystery

Ann Cleeves

Book - 2015

"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 unexpected mists. And then Eleanor's body is discovered lying in a small loch close to the cliff edge. Detectives Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves are dispatched to investigate. Before she went missing, Eleanor claimed to have seen the ghost of a local child who drowned in the 1920s. ...Her interest in the ghost had seemed unhealthy--obsessive, even--to her friends: an indication of a troubled mind. But Jimmy and Willow are convinced that there is more to Eleanor's death than they first thought. Is there a secret that lies behind the myth? One so shocking that someone would kill--many years later--to protect? Ann Cleeves' striking new novel is a quintessential whodunit with surprises at every turn"--

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Subjects
Genres
Mystery fiction
Published
New York : Minotaur Books 2015.
Language
English
Main Author
Ann Cleeves (-)
Edition
First U.S. edition
Item Description
"A Thomas Dunne book."
Physical Description
388 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781250091079
9781250069948
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Review by Booklist Review

*Starred Review* Many elements conspire to make the latest entry in Cleeves' Shetland series absolutely engrossing, including a combination ghost story and mystery, a multilayered main character, and a perfect atmosphere for misdirection and murder. In this seventh in the series set on Scotland's Shetland Islands, a group of London friends trek to Unst, the northernmost Shetland Island, to attend a hamefarin (roughly equivalent to a wedding reception) of one of the women in their group. One of the Londoners, Eleanor, has the added incentive of filming a documentary about an alleged island ghost, a little girl who drowned almost 100 years ago. A little girl in white is indeed spotted by at least one other guest, appearing in the tricky light of the long Scottish midsummer's night but then suddenly vanishing. Eleanor, too, seems to disappear into thin air after the reception. Inspector Jimmy Perez looks into what might have made Eleanor run off until her body is discovered. Working with the equally complex and surprisingly funny DI Willow Reeves of the Inverness Serious Crimes Squad, Perez, haunted by his memories of his recently deceased fiancée, must force himself to confront the death of another young woman to find the killer. This nicely detailed procedural and rich character study pairs beautifully with Peter May's Lewis trilogy.--Fletcher, Connie Copyright 2015 Booklist

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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

In Cleeves's exquisitely plotted sixth Shetland mystery (after 2013's Dead Water), bridesmaid Eleanor Longstaff disappears during a wedding ceremony on the island. When she turns up dead in a shallow loch, Det. Insp. Willow Reeves and colleague Jimmy Perez investigate. The pair have difficulty establishing a motive for murder in the close-knit local community and among the university friends who make up the wedding party, but they soon discover that Eleanor was researching a ghost story for a TV show about Elizabeth Geldard, a young girl who died nearly a hundred years earlier but has been repeatedly spotted dancing on an island beach, in a white dress and ribbons. It becomes increasingly likely that Eleanor's research led to her demise, and if Willow and Jimmy don't find the killer, her death may not be the only one. Cleeves deftly explores the complicated personal relationships of the principal characters in this atmospheric installment. Agent: Sarah Menguc, Sarah Menguc Literary Agent (U.K.). (May) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Review by Library Journal Review

Insp. Jimmy Perez arrives from the Scottish mainland to investigate the disappearance of a young English woman from a wedding party. When her body is found, questions arise over whether her death is suicide or murder. A well-developed police procedural marks Cleeves's sixth "Shetland Mystery" (after Dead Water). © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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