Ann Cleeves

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair Isles to introduce his fiancee, Fran, to his parents. It's a community where everyone knows each other, and strangers, while welcomed, are still viewed with a degree of mistrust. Challenging to live on at the best of times, with the autumn storms raging, the island feels cut off from the rest of the world. Trapped, tension is high and tempers become frayed. Enough to drive someone to murder... When a woman's body is discovered at the renowned Fair Isles bird observatory, with feathers threaded through her hair, the islanders react with fear and anger. With no support from the mainland and only Fran to help him - Jimmy has to investigate the old-fashioned way. He soon realizes that this is no crime of passion - but a murder of cold and calculated intention. With no way off the island until the storms abate - Jimmy knows he has to work quickly. There's a killer on the island just waiting for the opportunity to strike again...

Red Bones marks the third in a stellar suspense series set on the Shetland Islands from bestselling author Ann Cleeves--the basis for the hit BBC show Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall. When a young archaeologist discovers a set of human remains, the locals are intrigued. Is it an ancient find--or a more contemporary mystery? Then an elderly woman is fatally shot and Ann Cleeves's popular series detective Jimmy Perez is called in. As claustrophobic mists swirl around the island, Inspector Perez finds himself totally in the dark.

Vicekriminalkommissær Jimmy Perez fra Shetlandsøerne får denne gang to mord på hånden, da en mand ved en fernisering pludselig kaster sig grædende på knæ, påstår at have hukommelsestab og kort derefter findes hængt. Det andet mord følger kort efter.

Komisario Jimmy Perez on vierailulla kotisaarellaan, kun nainen löytyy kuolleena linnunhöyheniä hiuksissaan. Uhri on kuuluisa ornitologi ja saaren lintuaseman emäntä. Perez ryhtyy tutkimaan murhaa - yksin, sillä syysmyrskyt eristävät saaren muusta maailmasta.

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. 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.

»Cleeves anbefales varmt.«- Weekendavisen»Plottet holder hele vejen - ligesom spændingen.«- Jydske Vestkysten»Sort som Ravnen er ikke kun en stille, smuk og spændende krimi, men også et indbydende postkort fra Shetlandsøerne.«- Politiken

Saarella, missä kaikki tuntevat toisensa, on vaikea pitää salaisuuksia tai saada tietoa asioista, joista ei haluta puhua ulkopuolisille. Tämän huomaa myös komisario Jimmy Perez, joka jatkaa nyt tutkimuksiaan Whalseyn sumuisella saarella. Punaista tomua on palkitun Ann Cleevesin Shetlandinsaarille sijoittuvan dekkarisarjan kolmas osa. Perezin kollegan Sandyn isoäidin tontilla tehdään arkeologisia kaivauksia. Tontilta löytyy ihmisen luita ja vanhoja kolikoita, ja pian tämän jälkeen kaksi ruumista. Molemmille kuolemille löytyy järkevä selitys, mutta Jimmy Perezin mielestä kaksi kuolemaa samassa kuussa ja samalla tontilla on liian outoa sattumaa. Perez aloittaa murhatutkimukset, joihin joutuu sukulaissiteistään huolimatta osallistumaan myös Sandy. Pian Sandy huomaa penkovansa sukusalaisuuksia, joista ei oikeastaan haluaisi tietää mitään. Tapahtumien takaa alkaa paljastua vanha ja monimutkainen mustasukkaisuuden, kateuden ja sotkuisten ihmissuhteiden vyyhti.

Die Zeit heilt keine Wunden
 
 Mittsommer auf den Shetlands - die Tage sind sehr lang und die Nächte sehr hell. 
 Eines lauen Sommerabends findet in Biddista eine Vernissage statt. Mitten in die Feierlichkeiten platzt ein Fremder. Als sein Blick auf die ? Frau in Rot? fällt, bricht er in Tränen aus. Kurz darauf ist er verschwunden.
 Am nächsten Morgen findet man im nahe gelegenen Bootschuppen einen Toten: der Erhängte trägt eine Clownsmaske. 
 Detective Jimmy Perez glaubt nicht an Selbstmord, und eine weitere Leiche gibt ihm Recht. Perez ist fest entschlossen, diesen Fall aufzuklären, doch seine Liebe zu Fran Hunter macht ihn blind. Er übersieht einiges ? bis es fast zu spät ist ?

The basis for the hit series "Shetland" now airing on PBS. Winner of Britain's coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, Ann Cleeves's Raven Black introduces a dazzling suspense series to U. S. mystery readers. It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a splash of color on the frozen ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbor, Catherine Ross. The locals on the quiet island stubbornly focus their gaze on one man--loner and simpleton Magnus Tait. But when detective Jimmy Perez and his colleagues from the mainland insist on opening out the investigation, a veil of suspicion and fear is thrown over the entire community. For the first time in years, Catherine's neighbors nervously lock their doors, while a killer lives on in their midst.

A collection of short fiction by internationally renowned crime writers.

Weißt du, wem du trauen kannst?
 
 Winter auf den Shetlandinseln. Still ruht die Welt unter einer weißen Decke. Das Mädchen im Schnee trägt einen roten Schal um den Hals. Um sie herum sitzen Raben. 
 Als Fran Hunter die Leiche der Sechzehnjährigen findet, ist es um die Dorfidylle geschehen. Ein Schuldiger ist schnell gefunden. Die Polizei verhaftet Magnus Tait, einen menschenscheuen Sonderling. Doch dann verschwindet während des Wikingerfestivals Up Helly Aa Frans kleine Tochter Cassie ?
 
 
 ? Ann Cleeves wirft einen Blick hinter die heile Fassade einer eingeschworenen Dorfgemeinschaft, in der jeder die Geheimnisse des anderen zu kennen glaubt, sich in Wahrheit jedoch Abgründe auftun. Eine fesselnde Lektüre.? (Val McDermid)

Who could have known birdwatching was such a dangerous sport? George Palmer-Jones attempts to unravel the murder of a young, innocent birder.

The second mystery novel in the Palmer-Jones series by Ann Cleeves, winner of the 2017 CWA Diamond Dagger.