Books by Ann Cleeves
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review 1: Inspector Jimmy Perez is back in Dead Water, the Fifth Shetland Mystery, by Ann Cleeves. Willow Reeves, a new SIO, is called in from Inverness to investigate the murder of a journalist. Jimmy Perez is pulled into the murder investigation by Sandy Wilson, his co-worker, and Rhon...
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review 1: The best of the series, I couldn't put it down. If you enjoyed the BBC series, you will enjoy the book even more but don't expect the same plot. The plot was similar but it's a bit like those "spot the difference" games kids do or even it's negative, the same but the opposite. A...
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review 1: As you expect, it's well plotted and convincing. When I read a book, one of the things I look for is: Do the characters stay with me afterwards? And Ann Cleeves does female characters well--Nina Backworth is so alive, so warm and so convincing that I could almost travel to the No...
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review 1: I really liked the first Shetland book, but this one was difficult to read. It didn't flow smoothly or engage me in anyway. The timeline (that's not quite the word I'm looking for) constantly changed, often flitting several times in one paragraph so that I wasn't ever sure whic...
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review 1: Set in Scotland a young archaeologist finds a skull and some bones and a mystery begins in a small village. The first death appears to be a mistake when someone shoots an elderly lady while he is hunting rabbits. Twists and turns with the characters and then another death at fi...
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review 1: This was a wonderfully relaxing read,which perhaps shouldn't be the case for a detective novel. Truth to tell neither the victims, nor their partners and friends, were likeable in any way - in fact, they were all pretty one-dimensional. By far the most interesting characters we...
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review 1: This was my review for Kaiwaka Library...Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope's neighbour Joanna disappears from her home, and her husband is concerned enough to ask Vera to take a look and see what she can find. Not an onerous task for her, but as Vera approaches the house where Jo...
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review 1: This is the third book of the Shetland series. Sandy Wilson is home on the Island of Whalsay visiting family. On his way home to his parent's house one night, he decides to visit his grandmother. He finds her lying dead outside of her house. He calls his boss Detective Jimmy Pere...