Shetland · Book 9
Wild Fire
- Published
- 1 January 2018
- Pages
- 415
- ISBN-13
- 9781529050257
- Type
- novel
About this book
Wild Fire (2018) closes out the Four Elements quartet and the core eight-book Shetland sequence, the longest entry in the series to that point at 415 pages. It followed Cold Earth as the eighth novel, before the 2025 continuation The Killing Stones extended the world to Orkney.
Its place in Shetland
Wild Fire is book 9 in the Shetland series. It follows Cold Earth. It is followed by The Killing Stones. 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 9781529050257
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250300386
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250226235