Ann Cleeves Shetland Series 8 Books Collection Set

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A hot summer on the Northumberland coast, and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son murdered.

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. The book’s redoubtable detective Vera Stanhope became an immediate hit with readers and led to numerous sequels and a television spin-off series starring Brenda Blethyn. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter, a young ecologist, to look after the place while they’re away. In the middle of rehearsals for her first big show at the arts center, eighteen-year-old Gabriella is murdered.

Taking inspiration from the novel, Wild Fire is a balanced London Dry Gin with juniper and sweet spice notes that have a lingering and warming finish. But Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez soon arrives from far-away Shetland when his ex-wife, Sarah, asks him to look into the case. For team leader Rachael Lambert the project is the perfect opportunity to rebuild her confidence after a double-betrayal by her lover and boss: Peter Kemp.

At Books2Door, we believe that reading is a fundamental skill that every child should have to help improve their vocabulary, grammar, and critical thinking skills. Remember, the journey through a book series is not just about reaching the end but also about the memories created along the way. Cleeves began her writing career through boredom, whilst she was resident on the miniscule tidal nature reserve of Hilbre.When water levels drop in a summer drought, Cranwell Lake reveals a thirty-year-old secret -- a body stabbed in.

When she finds her beloved cats and some protected wildfowl dead of illegal poison, elderly Ursula Ottway threatens to expose her landlord, politician Marcus Grenville, as an anti preservationist. Young Tom French was found dead, lying in a marsh on the Norfolk coast, with his head bashed in and his binoculars still around his neck. With such a low population area (roughly 20,000 people), it does get a bit ridiculous to have TOO many murders.Lizzie had planned her trip to Marrakech as the perfect escape from her life and her nightmares in Northumberland. A stunning second installment in the acclaimed Shetland Island Quartet, White Nights is sure to garner American raves for international sensation Ann Cleeves.

As the case develops, Perez finds himself peering deeper into the past of the Shetland Islands than anyone wants to go. Amateur sleuth George Palmer Jones and his fellow bird watchers abroad the Jessie Ellen catch sight of a rare sea bird. When Detective Matthew Venn turned his back on the strict religious community he grew up in, he lost his family too. Too Good To Be True is a complete novella-length story, originally selected as one of 15 books to be given away, free, on World Book Night, April 23rd 2016.Clues are slow to emerge from those who had known Luke and Lily, but Vera soon finds herself drawn towards the curious group of friends who discovered Lily’s body. The show also stars Alison O’Donnell as Alison McIntosh, Steven Robertson as Sandy Wilson, Lewis Howden as Billy McCabe, and more. Harbour Street is the next spellbinding installment in Ann Cleeves' series of crime novels about Vera Stanhope, played in the TV detective drama VERA by Brenda Blethyn.