KIRKUS REVIEWA grieving detective clashes with an incoming supervisor to solve a pair of murders on the main island of Shetland.Not long after photojournalist Jerry Markham has returned to Shetland after years in the south, someone runs his car off the foggy road from the oil terminal in Sullom Voe. Rhona Laing, the Procurator Fiscal of the district, finds his body in the boat in which she regularly rows with other women of Aith. When DI Willow Reeves arrives from the West Hebrides to supervise the subsequent investigation, she might as well be from another world. Willow grew up on a commune, wears baggy clothes that offend the obsessively tidy Laing, and is occasionally highhanded with the local force, including Detective Jimmy Perez. Still battling depression after the murder of his fiancee, Perez resents taking orders from a stranger, especially one he?s attracted to in spite of himself. Interviews with Markham?s family, his best friend, the young woman Markham got pregnant and abandoned, and the widower she?s about to marry point to a green-energy movement as a common denominator among the involved parties. When a supposed straw effigy turns out to be a human¥and a dead one at thatÂ¥Perez and Reeves further question the real motive behind the murders and demand to know what Laing is hiding.Cleeves (Silent Voices, 2013, etc.) returns to a sea-bound land of crofters? cottages, barren rocks and fog, especially the fog surrounding the murders. Although some of the characters are sketchier than the setting itself, the well-constructed procedural gains another dimension from Jimmy?s re-engagement with his work and his life.

(2013) Very good/Jimmy is on leave after the murder of his fiance so Willow Reeves is brought in from outside Shetland to lead an investigation into a journalists's murder that also involves the Fiscal. Kirkus: A grieving detective clashes with an incoming supervisor to solve a pair of murders on the main island of Shetland.Not long after photojournalist Jerry Markham has returned to Shetland after years in the south, someone runs his car off the foggy road from the oil terminal in Sullom Voe. Rhona Laing, the Procurator Fiscal of the district, finds his body in the boat in which she regularly rows with other women of Aith. When DI Willow Reeves arrives from the West Hebrides to supervise the subsequent investigation, she might as well be from another world. Willow grew up on a commune, wears baggy clothes that offend the obsessively tidy Laing, and is occasionally highhanded with the local force, including Detective Jimmy Perez. Still battling depression after the murder of his fiancee, Perez resents taking orders from a stranger, especially one he's attracted to in spite of himself. Interviews with Markham's family, his best friend, the young woman Markham got pregnant and abandoned, and the widower she's about to marry point to a green-energy movement as a common denominator among the involved parties. When a supposed straw effigy turns out to be a human¥and a dead one at thatÂ¥Perez and Reeves further question the real motive behind the murders and demand to know what Laing is hiding.Cleeves (Silent Voices, 2013, etc.) returns to a sea-bound land of crofters' cottages, barren rocks and fog, especially the fog surrounding the murders. Although some of the characters are sketchier than the setting itself, the well-constructed procedural gains another dimension from Jimmy's re-engagement with his work and his life.Pub Date: Feb. 18, 2014ISBN: 978-1-250-03660-5Page Count: 400Publisher: MinotaurReview Posted Online: Jan. 9, 2014Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2014

Not as enjoyable as the other Shetland Island mysteries. It's a little too gloomy, even accounting for the fact that Perez is still mourning his murdered lover, and I found the multiple character POV a little tiresome. But still, it's a good story, well written, well plotted, and worth the time spent on it.

Audiobook, borrowed from my public library via Overdrive. The switch in narrators (from Gordon Griffin to Kenny Blyth) took a little getting used to, but Blyth does a fine job. ( )

I know I enjoyed it but Yikes - a few weeks later and I can barely remember any of it. So not memorable as a read. ( )

A journalist gets murdered and detective Inspector Willow Reeves gets recruited from outside to lead the investigation since inspector Jimmy Perez haven't been himself since his loss in the last book. But it doesn't take a long time before Jimmy joins the investigation...

Ann Cleeves Shetland Island series has oddly become one of my favorite series. Oddly because the first three books were quite ordinary crime/mystery books. But the last book was really good and I have been looking forward to reading this book for some time. And I wasn't disappointed, a good mystery story, Jimmy, and Sandy are back and a new character, Willow Reeves that I came to like quite good. Now I just want to read the next book... ( )