Results for: shetland
Cold Earth (Shetland #7) by Ann Cleeves ***
27 June 2021Reading dates: 22 May – 26 June 2021 Cold Earth is my seventh Shetland series read. Here they are in order: #1 Raven Black #2 White Nights #3 Red Bones #4 Blue Lightning #5 Dead Water #6 Thin Air After such a long investment in the characters and the landscape, Cold Earth is a comfort […]
Red Bones (Shetland #3) by Ann Cleeves***
16 February 2021Reading dates: 18 January – 14 February 2021 I am totally into the Shetland landscape, the dramatic changing weather and the activities that take up the time in such remote island locations. This crime novel is about archaeology and about how an island like this does not have any privacy. The book takes place in […]
White Nights by Ann Cleeves (Shetland #2)****
19 January 2021Reading dates: 26 December 2020 – 18 January 2021 I really don’t understand how come I did not like Raven Black, when I am really loving Ann Cleeves’ Shetland Island quartet (which comprises, so far, eight novels). Like with the TV series, I love the landscape, the island-ness of the cases and the communities this […]
Blue Lightning by Ann Cleeves (Shetland #4) *****
25 December 2020Reading Dates: 09 – 25 December 2020 Blue Lighting is one of the most perfect thrillers I have read. Ruthless, interesting and believable. It takes place in Fair Isle, off Shetland and the setting makes it feel almost like a locked room mystery. I could not work out who he murderer was and when it […]
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch #1) by Michael Connelly *
7 September 2021Reading dates: 2 August – 6 September 2021 I chose to read The Black Echo because, like Shetland, the Harry Bosch books have been made into a TV series. Also like the Shetland novels, I really disliked the first volume of Harry Bosch stories. But this time I am not sure I have the heart to […]
Wild Fire by Ann Cleeves ***
15 July 2021Reading dates: 27 June – 15 July 2021 My last Shetland novel, the eighth one, the four in the elements series. Seasons series Raven Black (3*) White Nights (4*) Red Bones (3*) Blue Lightning (5*) Elements series 5. Dead Water (4*) 6. Thin Air (3*) 7. Cold Earth (3*) Wild Fire still centres too much […]
The papers of Tony Veitch (Laidlaw #2) by William McIlvanney
23 May 2021Reading dates: 22 April – 22 May 2021 The Papers of Tony Veitch follows on from the first novel in the trilogy and although the case is distinct and different, so many of the stories are followed from the first one, it is worth starting at the beginning for the sake of context. I liked this […]
Thin Air by Ann Cleeves (3 stars)
1 April 2021Read dates: 09-31 March 2020 In Thin Air, a group of people from London come to the most northerly Shetland island of Unst for a hamefarin’. One of them disappears and is eventually found dead. While the plot starts in a promising way, the development is too long and drawn out, the conclusion very unsatisfactory. […]
Dead Water by Ann Cleeves ****
10 March 2021Reading dates: 15 February – 09 March 2021 Dead Water is another solid crime novel from Ann Cleeves. I love Shetland and the fact that, in this fictional series, there is such a high proportion of serial killers on these northerly isles. I want to visit although probably nothing is going on there in real […]
Raven Black by Ann Cleeves ***
24 April 2016Reading dates: 27 March – 23 April 2016 I’ll be brief this time: page turner, Shetland as an interesting setting of which not enough is made of, predictable and unsatisfactory ending, no lasting morality but enjoyable nonetheless. I seem to be the queen of 3 stars …