A body is found in the wreckage of a destroyed home. Consumed by the investigation Inspector
Jimmy Perez struggles for the truth in Cold Earth the seventh Shetland mystery from Ann
Cleeves. In the black days of a Shetland winter torrential rain triggers a landslide that
crosses the main road and sweeps down to the sea. At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait
Inspector Jimmy Perez watches the flood of peaty water and mud smash through a croft house in
its path. Everyone thinks the croft is uninhabited but in the wreckage he finds the body of a
dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress. Perez becomes obsessed with finding out her
identity and what she was doing there. Then it emerges that she was already dead when the
landslide hit the house and suddenly Perez finds himself with a murder to solve . . . Now a
major BBC One drama Shetland starring Douglas Henshall. Continue the atmospheric crime
series with Wild Fire the final Shetland novel.
