Product Description

When Shetland detective Jimmy Perez finds a body in a hut used by fishermen it seems to be a straightforward case of suicide. He recognizes the victim – a stranger with amnesia who had disrupted a local party the night before his death.

Yet this is no desperate act of anguish, but the work of a cold and calculating killer.

As Perez investigates, he finds himself mired in the hidden secrets of the small Biddista community. Then another body is found.

Perez knows he must break the cycle before another death occurs. But this is a crazy time of year when night blurs into day and nothing is quite as it seems . . .

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37739 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 340 pages

Review
`This is shaping up to be a good solid series [Shetland Quartet], filled with lively, fully fleshed characters and complex and well-handled plots. It kept me guessing right to the end and it uses its setting well, drawing on the isolation and small town mentality of a hamlet on a small island off the coast of a small country...'
--eurocrime.co.uk

About the Author

Ann Cleeves worked as a probation officer, bird observatory cook and auxiliary coastguard before she started writing. She now promotes reading as Harrogate Crime-Writing Festival's reader in residence, and is also a member of 'Murder Squad', working with other northern writers to promote crime fiction. In 2006 Ann was awarded the Duncan Lawrie Dagger for Best Crime Novel, for Raven Black . Ann lives in North Tyneside.

Customer Reviews

One Good Night !
I am an Ann Cleeves latecomer, who discovered her through her first "Shetland" based novel, Raven Black, and have since become an Ann addict.
This, the second in her Shetland series has, in my opinion, outshone even the fantastic "Raven Black".
I wont go into a lengthy synopsis of "White Nights", as reading some of them can act as spoilers. All I will say is if you like your crime fiction in the old style ( Christie, Sayers etc..), but modern and up to speed with what is happening in other areas of crime fiction, then I think you will love this book. But I would read "Raven Black" first, as it happens to support a few of the relationships in "White Nights".
It is worth the price just to observe Ms Cleeves' descriptions of the islands, the communities, the hidden secrets that abound in isolated regions and above all the quirky characters who form the line up off these terrific yarns.

Newly found author
Have now read all the books in this series and really enjoyed the setting and the characters involved. Will read more of Ann Cleeves.