Ann Cleeves Shetland Series 8 Books Collection Set

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For team leader Rachael the project is the perfect opportunity to rebuild her confidence after a double betrayal by her lover and boss, Peter Kemp. But when a young nanny's body is found hanging in the barn beside their home, rumors of her affair with the husba. It’s a community where everyone knows each other, and strangers, while welcomed, are still viewed with a degree of mistrust. Arriving at the scene, DI Vera Stanhope is relieved to have an excuse to escape the holiday festivities.

But late on the night of the wedding party, one of them, Eleanor, disappears – apparently into thin air. Ann's Shetland series bring us DI Jimmy Perez, investigating in the mysterious, dark, and beautiful Shetland Islands. She went on to set up reading groups in prisons as part of the Inside Books project, became Cheltenham Literature Festival's first reader-in-residence and still enjoys working with libraries. The police tag Rob for the crime, but shrewd birder investigator George Palmer Jones focuses his attention on some odd ducks among the English contingent.Brace and Marshall, along with a mysterious stranger known only as “the Prof,” were close friends of Hector, her father. As she stands on the silent, snow-covered station platform, Vera feels a familiar buzz of anticipation, sensing that this will be a complex and unusual case. 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.

After dropping out of university she took a number of temporary jobs - child care officer, women's refuge leader, bird observatory cook, auxiliary coastguard - before going back to college and training to be a probation officer. From Ann Cleeves -- New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows -- comes The Glass Room.Together, they were “the Gang of Four,” and Hector had been one of the last people to see Marshall alive.

For us, there's nothing quite as magical as the first book in a new series, so we tend to favour Raven Black. It was Eleanor Masefield ‘s idea to sponsor an Open Day at her beautiful Grose Hill Hotel a celebration designed to raise funds for the protection of the local peregrine falcons that had been her late husband’s obsession. Since the death of his fiancée, Inspector Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop, but his interest in this new case is stirred and he decides to help the inquiry. They are investigating mysterious happenings, murders, and the secrets of Scotland’s most northern community.When fifteen-year-old Marilyn Howe turns up alone and frightened on Inspector Ramsay's doorstep he has little choice but to invite her in. Marilyn and her mother, Kathleen, are a familiar sight around Heppleburn, a strangely inseparable couple. But when he disappears and is later found dead during a storm, DI Matthew Venn faces an uncomfortable case.

When journalist Jerry Markham left the islands to make a name for himself in London, he left behind a scandal involving a young girl. Series 8 of Shetland, the gripping tv crime drama which grew out of Ann Cleeves' award-winning detective novels, has come to its thrilling conclusion. When a local celebrity is murdered, Inspector Jimmy Perez will uncover all manner of sordid secrets in the investigation. In the days that follow, she is distracted by thoughts of her mysterious lover, hoping against hope that Philip might come and find her. Afraid they will freeze, Vera takes the child and drives on, arriving at Brockburn, a run-down stately home she immediately recognizes as the house her father Hector grew up in.As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves' popularity explodes in print and on TV, this gripping e-short, "Frozen," will introduce readers to the inimitable DI Vera Stanhope. Before she went missing, Eleanor claimed to have seen the ghost of a local child who drowned in the 1920s. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter, a young ecologist, to look after the place while they’re away.