White nights

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White nights

Title:

White nights

Author:

Cleeves, Ann, author.

Series:

Shetland Island ;

Series Number:

Summary:

In this second book of the Shetland Quartet to feature Inspector Jimmy Perez, the launch of an exhibition at The Herring House art gallery is disturbed by a stranger who bursts into tears, then claims not to remember who he is or where he comes from. The next day he's found dead, wearing a clown's mask. Set in mid-summer, the book captures the unsettling nature of a landscape where the sun never quite sets and where people are not as they first seem.

General Note:

Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2008.

Sequel to Raven Black.

Physical Description:

401 pages ; 20 cm.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Subject Term:

Perez, Jimmy (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Police -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Scotland -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Pan Books,

Publication Date:

2015

2008

ISBN:

9781447274452

Publication Information:

London : Pan Books, 2015.

Call Number:

CLEEVES

Holds: Copies:

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Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
33607003273011	Adult Fiction	CLEEVES	Searching... Unknown	Searching... Unavailable

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Summary

WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD 2017White Nights is the second title in Ann Cleeves' Shetland crime series featuring Detective Jimmy Perez.NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMAWhen Shetland detective Jimmy Perez finds a body in a hut used by fishermen it seems to be a straightforward case of suicide. He recognizes the victim - a stranger with amnesia who had disrupted a local party the night before his death.Yet this is no desperate act of anguish, but the work of a cold and calculating killer. As Perez investigates, he finds himself mired in the hidden secrets of the small Biddista community. Then another body is found.Perez knows he must break the cycle before another death occurs. But this is a crazy time of year when night blurs into day and nothing is quite as it seems . . .PRAISE FOR WHITE NIGHTS"Taut, atmospheric ... will keep readers guessing until the last page." Publishers Weekly

Author Notes

Ann Cleeves was born in 1954 in England. She studied English at Sussex University. She then became a British crime-writer. In 2006 she won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger which is the richest crime-writing prize in the world, for her novel Raven Black. She also writes The Vera Stanhope novels which have been transformed into the TV detective series 'Vera'. Her Jimmy Perez novels are dramatozed as the TV series 'Shetland'.

(Bowker Author Biography)