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.
Key facts about Red Bones
Ann Cleeves wrote Red Bones, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2009. The book has 396 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780312384340 to find the main one.
Red Bones is book 3 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
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