Shetland · Book 8
Cold Earth
- Published
- 1 January 2016
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9781250107398
- Type
- novel
About this book
Cold Earth (2016) is the seventh full Shetland novel, following Thin Air and the interstitial short story Too Good to Be True. At 400 pages, it continues the Four Elements quartet as Jimmy Perez's Fair Isle-born colleague Willow Reeves increasingly shares the investigative load.
Its place in Shetland
Cold Earth is book 8 in the Shetland series. It follows Too Good to Be True. It is followed by Wild Fire. 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 9781250107398
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781447278184
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781529050240