Dead Water
Ann Cleeves
Kenny Blyth
The fifth Shetland novelA journalist working a story. Now his murder is a headline . . .When the body of a journalist is found in a traditional Shetland boat, Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted in to head up the investigation.Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop, but his local knowledge is needed and he decides to help the inquiry. Originally a Shetlander, the journalist had left the islands years before to make a name for himself in London, leaving a scandal in his wake. He had few friends in Shetland, so why was he back?When Willow and Jimmy dig deeper, they realize that he was chasing a story that many Shetlanders didn’t want to come to the surface. One that must have been significant enough to kill for . . .Dead Water is the fifth book in Ann Cleeves’ bestselling Shetland series – a major BBC One drama, starring Douglas Henshall.
Reviews of Dead Water
Finely crafted and satisfying * The Times * Beautifully written and cleverly plotted thriller, made all the more special by the setting * Sunday Mirror *
Ann Cleeves
Ann Cleeves is the creator of popular detectives Vera Stanhope and Jimmy Perez, who can now be found on television in ITV’s Vera and BBC One’s Shetland. The Long Call, the start of her new Two Rivers series featuring Devonian Matthew Venn, has received critical acclaim and the series is also being adapted for television. She has written over thirty novels, which have sold over a million copies worldwide, and in 2017 she was awarded the highest accolade in crime writing, the CWA Diamond Dagger.Ann worked as a probation officer, bird observatory cook and auxiliary coastguard before she started writing. She is a member of ‘Murder Squad’, working with other British northern writers to promote crime fiction. She lives in North Tyneside near where the Vera books are set.
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