The Killing Stones
- Published
- 7 October 2025
- Pages
- 382
- ISBN-13
- 9781035043095
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Killing Stones, published October 7, 2025 at 382 pages, is the most recent entry, arriving seven years after Wild Fire, the longest gap in the series.
Key facts about The Killing Stones
Ann Cleeves wrote The Killing Stones, a novel on our list. It has been out since 7 October 2025. The book has 382 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781035043095 to find the main one.
The Killing Stones is book 10 of 10 in the Shetland series. The series has 10 published books. However, the series starts with Raven Black (2006). It is also the latest book in the series with a full release date.
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. It is also the latest published Ann Cleeves book on file.
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
The Killing Stones is book 10 in the Shetland series. It follows 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 9781250403353
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250357281
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781035043095