Book Description
Ann Cleeves returns to her critically acclaimed Shetland Island series with this 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.
My Review
Let me start off by saying that this is a great series. I love the characters and the atmosphere of the Shetland Islands. I was glad to see that Jimmy Perez is starting to get over Fran's death and I hope that he finds a new love interest soon. Although I liked this book very much, it was lacking slightly from some of the first Shetland books as the reason for the murder was a little weak and the solution was not solvable because not to many clues were forthcoming until the very end. I do, however, still look forward to the next book in the series and hope to be reading it soon.
Ann Cleeves returns to her critically acclaimed Shetland Island series with this 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.
My Review
Let me start off by saying that this is a great series. I love the characters and the atmosphere of the Shetland Islands. I was glad to see that Jimmy Perez is starting to get over Fran's death and I hope that he finds a new love interest soon. Although I liked this book very much, it was lacking slightly from some of the first Shetland books as the reason for the murder was a little weak and the solution was not solvable because not to many clues were forthcoming until the very end. I do, however, still look forward to the next book in the series and hope to be reading it soon.
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