Ann Cleeves

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair Isles to introduce his fiancee, Fran, to his parents. It's a community where everyone knows each other, and strangers, while welcomed, are still viewed with a degree of mistrust.

Blue Lightning

Nadine 

Enjoy the atmosphere of her books. End was a little predictable

WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD 2017Blue Lightning is the fourth book in Ann Cleeves' Shetland series featuring Detective Jimmy Perez.NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMAWith the autumn storms raging, Fair Isle feels cut off from the rest of the world. Trapped, tension is high and tempers become frayed. Enough to drive someone to murder . . .A woman's body is discovered at the renowned Fair Isles bird observatory, with feathers threaded through her hair. The islanders react with fear and anger. Detective Jimmy Perez has no support from the mainland and must investigate the old-fashioned way. He soon realizes that this is no crime of passion - but a murder of cold and calculated intention.There's no way off the island until the storms abate - and so the killer is also trapped, just waiting for the opportunity to strike again.

Chris Aldrich

A painful but solid ending. Best of the series so far, though perhaps because knowing the characters so well now.

Jean MacDonald

This is a locked room mystery, with all the characters stuck on Fair Isle, Inspector Perez’s family home. So if the main Shetland Island feels a bit narrow  with its small interconnected population, as in previous books, this one feels like a true cozy mystery. The suspects are all staff or visitors to a ornithology center located in a lighthouse compound. I like to see more characters and locales, and less of Perez’s family. Still, it was interesting for the look at island life and the obsessive nature of birders. 

Blue Lightning

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