Thin Air: A Shetland Mystery (Shetland Island Mysteries)

About this book

Ann Cleeves is back with the sixth book in her Shetland series featuring Inspector Jimmy Perez whom readers will remember from Raven Black White Nights Red Bones Blue Lightning and Dead Water. A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Shetland to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends. But one of them Eleanor disappearsapparently into thin air. Its mid-summer a time of light nights and unexpected mists. And then Eleanors body is discovered lying in a small loch close to the cliff edge. Detectives Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves are dispatched to investigate. Before she went missing Eleanor claimed to have seen the ghost of a local child who drowned in the 1920s. Her interest in the ghost had seemed unhealthyobsessive evento her friends: an indication of a troubled mind. But Jimmy and Willow are convinced that there is more to Eleanors death than they first thought. Is there a secret that lies behind the myth? One so shocking that someone would killmany years laterto protect? Ann Cleeves striking new novel is a quintessential whodunit with surprises at every turn.