Shetland · Book 2

White Nights

Published
1 January 2008
Pages
400
ISBN-13
9780312384333
Type
novel
Cover of White Nights

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.

Key facts about White Nights

White Nights is a novel by Ann Cleeves. Readers have had it since 2008. It runs to 400 pages.

Our list holds 3 editions of White Nights. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780312384333 to find the main one.

White Nights is book 2 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

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…

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