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White Nights, the second book in Ann Cleeves' Shetland Quartet, is now available in paperback. Midsummer is a crazy time of year in Shetland, the time of the white nights, when birds sing at midnight and the sun never sets, when night blurs into day and nothing is quite as it seems - and murder follows murder in a small community... White Nights is perfect summer reading!
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SNEAK PREVIEW! The paperback edition of White Nights introduces an atmospheric new look for the Shetland Quartet. It will gradually appear on all four books as new editions are published, but the full quartet appear here for the first time in an exclusive preview.
Shetland Spring: Red Bones
For readers who are following the Shetland Quartet as soon as the books appear in hardback, the latest installment is Red Bones, (shown right in the published hardback edition, and above in the forthcoming paperback). Red Bones is set in spring: a time of rebirth and celebration. And a time of death... for April is the cruelest month. When a young archaeologist discovers a set of human remains, the island community is intrigued. Is it an ancient find - or a more contemporary mystery?
Order Red Bones from Amazon, or from your local bookshop, quoting the ISBN: 978-0-230-01446-6.
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Lightning strikes!
Finally, we are now able to reveal the cover of the fourth book of the Shetland Quartet, shortly after announcing its final title. Ann had challenged her readers to help find a name for her book, and here is the taster of the plot she gave in her online diary:
"The book is set in autumn, when the storms of the equinox batter the islands. I'd like it to contain a colour - any colour except red, black and white, which I've used already. Perez takes his fiancée Fran back to Fair Isle to meet his parents. In a field centre in a converted lighthouse, there's a murder, and stranded by the weather, Perez has to investigate it alone.
In the end, it wasn't the readers who came to the rescue, but Julius Caesar: find out how!
In true Agatha Christie style, Cleeves once again pulls the wool over our eyes with cunning and conviction
Colin Dexter
Ann Cleeves with Colin Dexter at the London launch of White Nights.
A most satisfying mystery set in an isolated and intriguing location
Peter Robinson
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Praise for Ann Cleeves:
"Nobody does unsettling undercurrents better than Ann Cleeves."
"Ann Cleeves deserves a lot more attention than she gets. Her plots are beautifully crafted; her characters are intense and deeply drawn."
Toronto Globe and Mail
"Perceptive, convincing and quietly compelling."
Marcel Berlins, The Times
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