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The electrifying follow up to the award-winning Raven Black Raven Black received crime fiction's highest monetary honor, the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award. Now Detective Jimmy Perez is back in an electrifying sequel. It's midsummer in the Shetland Islands, the time of the white nights, when birds sing at midnight and the sun never sets. Artist Bella Sinclair throws an elaborate party to launch an exhibition of her work at The Herring House, a gallery on the beach. The party ends in farce when one the guests, a mysterious Englishman, bursts into tears and claims not to know who he is or where he's come from. The following day the Englishman is found hanging from a rafter, and Detective Jimmy Perez is convinced that the man has been murdered. He is reinforced in this belief when Roddy, Bella's musician nephew, is murdered, too. But the detective's relationship with Fran Hunter may have clouded his judgment, for this is a crazy time of the year when night blurs into day and nothing is quite as it seems. A stunning second installment in the acclaimed Shetland Island Quartet, White Nights is sure to garner American raves for international sensation Ann Cleeves. This series is the basis for the hit BBC show Shetland,starring Douglas Henshall, which attracted over 12 million viewers in its first two nights on the air.
Scrabblenut: Raven Black was Ann Cleeves first book introducing detective Jimmy Perez and is also set in Shetland. Complex characters and lots of psychology, an excellent mystery.
This is the second in the detective series featuring Jimmy Perez and the Shetland Islands.
At the opening night of an art exhibition, a mysterious Englishman makes a scene. When Perez tries to intervene, the man claims that he has amnesia and then disappears from the gathering. The next morning the stranger is found dead, hanging from a rafter and wearing a clown mask. Perez, spurred by his guilt in talking to the stranger at the exhibition but not being able to stop, him must discover who the man is and what if any connection he has to the very small village.
Once again the Shetland Islands are a brooding character – this time at the height of summer when the white nights with almost constant daylight can bring out madness. The Pit O'Biddista, in the book is described as a local legendary pit carved between the cliffs and the shoreline. It was created by the giant Biddista while pursuing his lady love along the coastal cliffs. This location is so vivid, I was saddened to learn it and the legend are fictional.
Artists, actors, writers and a musician as well as the farmers and other village people make for an interesting story as the bodies pile up.
I rated this 4 out of 5 and will definitely go on with the series. ( )
Book 259. Ann Cleeves. White Night. Loaned to me by Liz Wight. This is the second book by her that I have read and we also watched Shetland series on TV as we went there in January. It's ok, I can't really criticise the plot or anything but there's a part of me saying "why don't you just read more Jo Nesbo?" But I am trying authors that are recommended and not choosing my own books so I will continue but I will leave Ann Cleeves at 2. 6.5/10 ( )
I really enjoyed this second outing of inspector Perez in Shetland. The setting and characters are intriguing but at the same time comfortable. You feel like you’d understand their motivations. Different aspects add a slight eeriness, the mask,hanging man, amnesia…. and….worst of all…the never ending light . The ending felt a bit rushed to me… I was nearly certain it was heading in that direction…but I wasn’t crazy about how it played out ( )
Small town murders can be difficult to sort out, especially when you've known most of the players all your life. Shetland police detective Jimmy Perez wades through truths and lies to clear up not one murder but another that follows. Great book! ( )
The electrifying follow up to the award-winning Raven Black Raven Black received crime fiction's highest monetary honor, the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award. Now Detective Jimmy Perez is back in an electrifying sequel. It's midsummer in the Shetland Islands, the time of the white nights, when birds sing at midnight and the sun never sets. Artist Bella Sinclair throws an elaborate party to launch an exhibition of her work at The Herring House, a gallery on the beach. The party ends in farce when one the guests, a mysterious Englishman, bursts into tears and claims not to know who he is or where he's come from. The following day the Englishman is found hanging from a rafter, and Detective Jimmy Perez is convinced that the man has been murdered. He is reinforced in this belief when Roddy, Bella's musician nephew, is murdered, too. But the detective's relationship with Fran Hunter may have clouded his judgment, for this is a crazy time of the year when night blurs into day and nothing is quite as it seems. A stunning second installment in the acclaimed Shetland Island Quartet, White Nights is sure to garner American raves for international sensation Ann Cleeves. This series is the basis for the hit BBC show Shetland,starring Douglas Henshall, which attracted over 12 million viewers in its first two nights on the air.
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At the opening night of an art exhibition, a mysterious Englishman makes a scene. When Perez tries to intervene, the man claims that he has amnesia and then disappears from the gathering. The next morning the stranger is found dead, hanging from a rafter and wearing a clown mask. Perez, spurred by his guilt in talking to the stranger at the exhibition but not being able to stop, him must discover who the man is and what if any connection he has to the very small village.
Once again the Shetland Islands are a brooding character – this time at the height of summer when the white nights with almost constant daylight can bring out madness. The Pit O'Biddista, in the book is described as a local legendary pit carved between the cliffs and the shoreline. It was created by the giant Biddista while pursuing his lady love along the coastal cliffs. This location is so vivid, I was saddened to learn it and the legend are fictional.
Artists, actors, writers and a musician as well as the farmers and other village people make for an interesting story as the bodies pile up.
I rated this 4 out of 5 and will definitely go on with the series. (