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Blue Lightning
Shetland (Related to this series)
- Author
- Ann Cleeves
- Narrator
- Kenny Blyth
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 1 March 2025
- Run Time
- 10 hours 21 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: police procedural, Thriller / suspense fiction, Narrative theme: sense of place
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
A remote island on lockdown. A killer on the loose. There is no escape for Inspector Jimmy Perez in Blue Lightning, the fourth mystery in the Shetland detective series from Ann Cleeves.
Now a major BBC One drama, Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall.
Shetland detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming, as he returns to Fair Isle to introduce his fiancée to his parents. With the autumn storms raging, the island is cut off from the rest of the world.
Then a woman’s body is discovered at the renowned bird observatory, with feathers threaded through her hair. Perez has no support from the mainland and must investigate the old-fashioned way – alone. He soon realizes that this is no crime of passion, but a murder of cold and calculated intention.
There will be no way to escape the island until the storms abate. And so the killer is also trapped, just waiting for the opportunity to strike again . . .
Continue the thrilling, bestselling crime series with Dead Water.
‘One of Britain's best crime writers’ – Daily Express
‘Cleeves is quietly carving out a reputation as the new Queen of Crime’ – Sunday Mirror
Critics Review
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An excellent series
The Guardian
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Cleeves is excellent not just on the mystery, but on the atmosphere of Fair Isle
The Independent
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Rarely has a sense of place been so evocatively conveyed in a crime novel
Daily Express, on Raven Black
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Crackles with inner heat
Peter James, author of the Roy Grace novels, on Red Bones
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Nobody does unsettling undercurrents better than Ann Cleeves
Val McDermid, award-winning author of Silent Bones
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Cleeves is quietly carving out a reputation as the new Queen of Crime
Sunday Mirror
User Reviews
Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
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5.0 5.0
Another intriguing mystery by Ann Cleeves with a birding theme familiar from her Vera stories and a dramatic sense of place. This one has a more than usually powerful emotional impact.
jackdor 2025-09-07
Details
- Author
- Ann Cleeves
- Narrator
- Kenny Blyth
- Duration
- 10 hours 21 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 March 2025
- ISBN
- 9781035064700
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: police procedural, Thriller / suspense fiction, Narrative theme: sense of place
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
A remote island on lockdown. A killer on the loose. There is no escape for Inspector Jimmy Perez in Blue Lightning, the fourth mystery in the Shetland detective series from Ann Cleeves.Now a major BBC One drama, Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall.Shetland detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming, as he returns to Fair Isle to introduce his fiancée to his parents. With the autumn storms raging, the island is cut off from the rest of the world.Then a woman’s body is discovered at the renowned bird observatory, with feathers threaded through her hair. Perez has no support from the mainland and must investigate the old-fashioned way – alone. He soon realizes that this is no crime of passion, but a murder of cold and calculated intention.There will be no way to escape the island until the storms abate. And so the killer is also trapped, just waiting for the opportunity to strike again . . .Continue the thrilling, bestselling crime series with Dead Water.‘One of Britain's best crime writers’ – Daily Express‘Cleeves is quietly carving out a reputation as the new Queen of Crime’ – Sunday Mirror
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