Cold earth / Ann Cleeves.
In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main Lerwick-Sumburgh road and sweeps down to the sea. At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Jimmy Perez watches the flood of mud and peaty water 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. In his mind, she shares his Mediterranean ancestry and soon he becomes obsessed with tracing her identity. Then it emerges that she was already dead before the landslide hit the house. Perez knows he must find out who she was, and how she died.
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- ISBN: 9781447278221 (paperback) :
- ISBN: 1447278224
- Physical Description: 387 pages ; 20 cm.
- Publisher: London, England : Pan Books, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2016
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General Note: | Originally published: Macmillan, 2016. The darkest secrets are buried deepest. [Front cover.] |
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Subject: | Perez, Jimmy (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Murder > Investigation > Fiction. Shetland (Scotland) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Mystery fiction |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Sparwood Public Library | FIC CLE (Text) | 35172000229316 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Alert Bay Public Library | AF CLE (Text) | 35125000121222 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Beaver Valley Public Library | F CLE (Text) | 35144000159801 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Bibliotheque St. Claude Library | FIC CLE (Text) | 36725000152835 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Bren Del Win Centennial Library | F Cleeves (Text) | 36320000336560 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Burns Lake Public Library | AF CLE (Text) | 35198000695131 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Castlegar Public Library | MYS CLE (Text) | 35146002002160 | Mystery | Volume hold | Available | - |
Chetwynd Public Library | FIC CLE (Text) | 35222000955467 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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35140100014045 | Mystery | Volume hold | Available | - |
Fort St. James Public Library | CLE (Shetland Island #7) (Text) | 35196001015978 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main Lerwick-Sumburgh road and sweeps down to the sea. At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Jimmy Perez watches the flood of mud and peaty water 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. In his mind, she shares his Mediterranean ancestry and soon he becomes obsessed with tracing her identity. Then it emerges that she was already dead before the landslide hit the house. Perez knows he must find out who she was, and how she died.