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As local residents are forced to share their private lives and those of their loved ones, sinister secrets are slowly unearthed. As she stands on the silent, snow-covered station platform, Vera feels a familiar buzz of anticipation, sensing that this will be a complex and unusual case. When she finds her beloved cats and some protected wildfowl dead of illegal poison, she angrily threatens to expose her landlord, politician Marcus Grenville, as an anti-p. Ernie's big fantasy is that his blind date with a blonde divorcee will end with the two of them back at the farm, cozily shacked up. Working with Sergeant Joe Ashworth, she starts the hunt for a murderer who is artistic as well as deadly.
Brace was convicted of corruption and involvement in the death of a gamekeeper – and Vera played a part in his downfall.
However, in the first book their quiet and peaceful trip becomes a mystery as criminal activity increases around the Norfolk coast. The suspenseful and atmospheric thrillers are perfect for a cold winter night when you want to curl up with a good book.
But when one of the party goes missing and is found, floating in the sea, his head bludgeoned, Palmer Jones must found out who murdered the man, and why.For a different perspective, read an interview in which Shetlander Steven Robertson talks to the Herald about the show, and about growing up in Shetland. To bring a killer to justice, Molly and George must uproot a lifetime’s worth of secrets and expose a nest of vicious human vultures. Ann Cleeves will be donating her royalties from the sale of this edition of Blue Lightning to support the Fair Isle Bird Observatory. Raven Black was shortlisted for the Martin Beck award for best translated crime novel in Sweden in 200. 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.