Shetland · Book 4
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.
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