Blue Lightning
- Published
- 1 January 2010
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9781407914671
- Type
- novel
About this book
Blue Lightning (2010) closes out the Four Seasons quartet that opened Ann Cleeves's Shetland series, following Red Bones as the fourth entry. At 368 pages, it precedes a three-year gap before Dead Water launches the Four Elements quartet.
Key facts about Blue Lightning
Ann Cleeves wrote Blue Lightning, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2010. The book has 368 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781407914671 to find the main one.
Blue Lightning is book 4 of 10 in the Shetland series. The series has 10 published books. However, the series starts with Raven Black (2006). The Killing Stones is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 7 October 2025.
Additionally, Ann Cleeves writes George and Molly Palmer-Jones, Inspector Ramsay and Vera Stanhope, plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our cozy mystery, police procedural and mystery shelves. Meanwhile, The Killing Stones is the latest published Ann Cleeves book on file, from 7 October 2025.
About Ann Cleeves
Ann Cleeves is an English crime writer whose atmospheric, character-driven procedurals are rooted in remote, weather-beaten landscapes she has often lived in herself. Early jobs cooking at a Fair Isle bird observatory and, later, years spent on the tidal, no-electricity Hilbre Island fed directly into her fiction. See every Ann Cleeves book in order.
Its place in Shetland
Blue Lightning is book 4 in the Shetland series. It follows Red Bones. It is followed by Dead Water. See the full Shetland reading order.
Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez works Scotland's remotest posting: the Shetland Islands, a windswept archipelago closer to Norway than to Edinburgh, where everyone knows everyone and a murder tears at the fabric of a community too small to absorb one. Ann Cleeves, who also writes the Vera Stanhope novels, builds the series as much around landscape and light as around plot — the eternal simmer dim of midsummer, the total darkness of winter, the birdwatchers and knitters and fishermen who make up island life — and…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780230014473
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781407914671
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781447274476