from pennykaplan

An English family moves to the Shetland islands in the hopes it will be better for their autistic son, but then their nanny is found hanged, and suspicions spread like wildfire. A bit convoluted in the denouement, but the setting and characters are great. New developments on the Jimmy and Willow ...

from pennykaplan

An English family moves to the Shetland islands in the hopes it will be better for their autistic son, but then their nanny is found hanged, and suspicions spread like wildfire. A bit convoluted in the denouement, but the setting and characters are great. New developments on the Jimmy and Willow ...

from pgchuis

I haven't read one of these novels for years, but I have been watching "Shetland" - it's all very different. This was an enjoyable read, but Perez wasn't the same man as on TV and I missed Tosh. The story was easy enough to follow, but all the characters were unlikeable (I'm thinking especially o...

from thornton37814

Jimmy Perez is called out to investigate the death of a nanny found hanging in the same barn as a man who committed suicide. Suspicion rests on the family owning the barn who has an autistic son, the family who employed her, and on a young man who was seen with the young woman a few times and his...

from atticusfinch1048

Wild Fire - Ann Cleeves at her best With Wild Fire being the last in her Shetland series, Ann Cleeves has once again given us a master class on how to write crime fiction. Her writing is evocative, deftly building up the characters, and every book in this series was better than the last. With her...