Dead water : a Shetland mystery

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Title:

Dead water : a Shetland mystery

Author:

Cleeves, Ann, author.

Series:

Shetland Island ;

Series Number:

Summary:

Assisting a detective who has been summoned to the Shetland Islands to investigate a journalist's suspicious death, Inspector Jimmy Perez discovers that the victim had ended a scandalous relationship to pursue a story that someone was determined to keep hidden.

General Note:

"A Thomas Dunne book."

Edition:

First U.S. edition

Physical Description:

400 pages ; 21 cm.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Geographic Term:

Shetland (Scotland) -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Minotaur Books,

Publication Date:

2015

2014

ISBN:

9781250060952

Publication Information:

New York : Minotaur Books, 2015.

Call Number:

CLEEVES

Holds: Copies:

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Summary

Ann Cleeves returns to her critically acclaimed Shetland Island series, now a BBC television show available on streaming.

Dead Water is the next stunning mystery featuring Inspector Jimmy Perez, who readers will remember from Raven Black, White Nights, Red Bones, and Blue Lightning. When the body of a journalist is found, Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted from outside to head up the investigation. Inspector Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop, but his local knowledge is needed in this case, and he decides to help Willow.

The dead journalist had left the islands years before to pursue his writing career. In his wake, he left a scandal involving a young girl. When Willow and Jimmy dig deeper, they realize that the journalist was chasing a story that many Shetlanders didn't want to come to the surface.

In Dead Water , a triumphant continuation to her Shetland series, Ann Cleeves cements her place as one of Britain's most successful crime writers.

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)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

The murder of prying journalist Jerry Markham propels Cleeves's absorbing fourth Shetland mystery (after 2010's Blue Lightning). Shrewd Det. Insp. Willow Reeves, from the west of Scotland, deals with the tightly-wound local prosecutor, Rhona Laing, who discovered Markham's body and may know more than she's telling. Prickly Insp. Jimmy Perez, not yet returned to full-time duty after his fiancee's death, assists with interviews of the island's residents. Also in the mix are the dead man's parents and girlfriend, who have a different view of Markham than most of their neighbors; Evie Watt, Markham's former girlfriend, who works for the local community-development agency; and Evie's fiance, John Henderson, who has secrets to hide. The tensions between those who wish to preserve their traditions and those who seek the opportunities of new technologies are subtly illustrated. Cleeves keeps readers guessing about the perpetrator's identity until the final pages. Agent: Sarah Menguc, Sarah Menguc Literary Agent (U.K.). (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Library Journal Review

Broken-hearted DI Jimmy Perez sets aside his own grief to assist the local authorities with a case involving a murdered journalist. The victim had left the Shetland Islands for greener pastures, and it looks as if his return was the wrong move. This is the fifth series entry (after Blue Lightning) for the Gold Dagger Award-winning author. The books have become a BBC TV series, Shetland. (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.