Shetland · Book 2
White Nights
- Published
- 1 January 2008
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9780312384333
- Type
- novel
About this book
White Nights (2008) continues the Four Seasons quartet that opens the Shetland series, following Jimmy Perez's patient, people-first investigative style through another island murder. At 400 pages, it arrived two years after Raven Black.
Its place in Shetland
White Nights is book 2 in the Shetland series. It follows Raven Black. It is followed by Red Bones. 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 9789022994139
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781429990110
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781447293842