Dead Water
- Published
- 1 January 2013
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9783499267178
- Type
- novel
About this book
Dead Water (2013) opens the Four Elements quartet, the second half of Ann Cleeves's Shetland series, arriving after a three-year gap since Blue Lightning closed the Four Seasons books. At 400 pages, it continues following Jimmy Perez through the personal losses -- including his wife Fran's death -- that mark the series' middle stretch.
Key facts about Dead Water
Ann Cleeves wrote Dead Water, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2013. The book has 400 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9783499267178 to find the main one.
Dead Water is book 5 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
Dead Water is book 5 in the Shetland series. It follows Blue Lightning. It is followed by Thin Air. 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 9783499267178
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781447229575
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250036605