Red Bones (Shetland, 3)

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These things don’t come along too often for any location - any place - so most people realise it’s fundamentally a good thing and shows off Shetland all over the world.

Ann Cleeves: Red Bones, the third book in the Shetland Quartet

First Ronald Clouston, mistaking old Mima for a rabbit in the foggy Shetland night, accidentally shoots her. They were the only residents, there was no mains electricity or water and access to the mainland was at low tide across the shore. 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.

When a second, seemingly 'unsuspicious' death occurs, Jimmy realises there must be more to these tragedies than meets the eye and further investigation is required.

Summary and reviews of Red Bones by Ann Cleeves - BookBrowse

Two young students are conducting an archaeological dig on a small croft owned by Mima Wilson, Sandy's widowed grandmother.

The author must be more than a little bit of a naturalist as she describes with real feeling how the sea, fields, sky, etc. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Presumably he is a detective but people's opinions of his abilities seem to suggest he would need to have a lot more experience to be that.

Red Bones - Macmillan Red Bones - Macmillan

As in the best traditional English village whodunits, the killer lurks among the townspeople, but his or her identity still comes as a shock.However, the discovery of the bones sparks not one, but two, tragedies, which Jimmy and Sandy increasingly come to feel were not accidental.