Shetland · Book 3
Red Bones
- Published
- 1 January 2009
- Pages
- 396
- ISBN-13
- 9780312384340
- Type
- novel
About this book
Red Bones (2009) is the third Shetland novel, continuing the Four Seasons quartet a year after White Nights with Jimmy Perez working the remotest of Scottish postings. It runs 396 pages, deepening the series' character-driven approach to island life.
Its place in Shetland
Red Bones is book 3 in the Shetland series. It follows White Nights. It is followed by Blue Lightning. 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 9783499247101
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780330513524
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781529050202