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Cold Earth
Shetland (Related to this series)
- Author
- Ann Cleeves
- Narrator
- Kenny Blyth
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 1 December 2021
- Run Time
- 10 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: police procedural, Thriller / suspense fiction, Narrative theme: sense of place
- Rating
- 4.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
A body is found in the wreckage of a destroyed home. Consumed by the investigation, Inspector Jimmy Perez struggles for the truth in Cold Earth, the mystery in the Shetland detective series from Ann Cleeves.
Now a major BBC One drama, Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall.
In the black days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main road and sweeps down to the sea.
At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Inspector Jimmy Perez watches the flood of peaty water and mud smash through a croft house in its path. Everyone thinks the croft is uninhabited, but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress. Perez becomes obsessed with finding out her identity and what she was doing there.
Then it emerges that she was already dead when the landslide hit the house and, suddenly, Perez finds himself with a murder to solve . . .
Continue the atmospheric, bestselling crime series with Wild Fire, the final Shetland novel.
‘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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The new queen of crime
Sunday Mirror
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One of the most memorable entries in the series
Financial Times
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Nobody does unsettling undercurrents better than Ann Cleeves
Val McDermid, award-winning author of Silent Bones
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The Queen of the detective novel, thrilling millions of readers
Daily Express
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A master storyteller
Globe and Mail
User Reviews
Book 4.0
Narration 5.0
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4.0 5.0
Kept me guessing until the dramatic scene at the end but I found the explanation that followed overly convoluted and that left a sense of anticlimax. Enjoyable nevertheless and it was good to witness the development of key characters from the series.
jackdor 2025-12-13
Details
- Author
- Ann Cleeves
- Narrator
- Kenny Blyth
- Duration
- 10 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 December 2021
- ISBN
- 9781529097627
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: police procedural, Thriller / suspense fiction, Narrative theme: sense of place
- Rating
- 4.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
A body is found in the wreckage of a destroyed home. Consumed by the investigation, Inspector Jimmy Perez struggles for the truth in Cold Earth, the mystery in the Shetland detective series from Ann Cleeves.Now a major BBC One drama, Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall.In the black days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main road and sweeps down to the sea.At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Inspector Jimmy Perez watches the flood of peaty water and mud smash through a croft house in its path. Everyone thinks the croft is uninhabited, but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress. Perez becomes obsessed with finding out her identity and what she was doing there.Then it emerges that she was already dead when the landslide hit the house and, suddenly, Perez finds himself with a murder to solve . . .Continue the atmospheric, bestselling crime series with Wild Fire, the final Shetland novel.‘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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