Dead Water: A Shetland Mystery Author: Ann Cleeves | Language: English | ISBN:
B00FCQW6HW | Format: PDF
Dead Water: A Shetland Mystery 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.
- File Size: 793 KB
- Print Length: 401 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1250036607
- Publisher: Minotaur Books (February 18, 2014)
- Sold by: Macmillan
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00FCQW6HW
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,516 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #89
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Crime Fiction
- #89
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Crime Fiction
A Shetland lad who became a journalist and went to London to work, returns and is murdered. There are murky depths with a past relationship to a girl who is now about to marry, a tidal power project under way and his expectation of not needing money from his hotel-owning parents any more.
I didn't find the reasons for the deaths believable and I wanted to see at least once that the police were researching witnesses and suspects on the net. Most of them would have a website, social page or comments on bulletin boards which would be found easily, but no, nobody ever does that - standard practice in policing now. Seems the author has never heard of Twitter or Google. The police just ask slow local man Sandy what he knows. In Ireland, the police are never allowed to be posted to their home area. They might have to arrest a relative. In such a small community it makes no sense to have a local police man, who would be related to everyone, but I cannot see Sandy surviving a week posted to Glasgow. I also wondered where a journalist would go without a netbook or tablet these days? The author just seems not to be in touch.
I enjoyed all the other Shetland books but sadly this one didn't feel as good. Firstly it was too slow and vague. I was reading it in the evenings after doing lots of other things, and never once felt inclined to pick it up during the day. Secondly I didn't take to the female police detective brought in to supervise. Jimmy Perez has been a very good character but in this book he's lost and depressed after a personal tragedy, so we don't get much from him and he's not all that interested in the work of policing.
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