Too Good to Be True
- Published
- 4 February 2016
- Pages
- 112
- ISBN-13
- 9781035024568
- Type
- short
About this book
Too Good to Be True is a 112-page short story released on February 4, 2016, sitting outside the main numbered sequence between Thin Air and Cold Earth.
Key facts about Too Good to Be True
Ann Cleeves wrote Too Good to Be True, a short story on our list. It has been out since 4 February 2016. The book has 112 pages.
We list 1 edition of this short story. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781035024568 to find the main one.
Too Good to Be True is book 7 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
Too Good to Be True is book 7 in the Shetland series. It follows Thin Air. It is followed by Cold Earth. 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 9781035024568