Thin Air By Ann Cleeves (Paperback, 2015)

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Thin Air is the sixth book in Ann Cleeves' Shetland series
- now a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall as detective Jimmy Perez Shetland A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London & travel to Unst Shetland's most northerly island to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends to a Shetlander But late on the night of the wedding party one of them Eleanor disappears
- apparently into thin air It's mid-summer a time of light nights & unexpected mists The following day Eleanor's friend Polly receives an email It appears to be a suicide note saying she'll never be found alive & then Eleanor's body is discovered lying in a small loch close to the cliff edge Detectives Jimmy Perez & Willow Reeves are dispatched to Unst to investigate Before she went missing Eleanor claimed to have seen the ghost of a local child who drowned in the 1920s Her interest in the ghost had seemed unhealthy
- obsessive even
- to her friends an indication of a troubled mind But Jimmy & Willow are convinced that there is more to Eleanor's death than they first thought Is there a secret that lies behind the myth? One so shocking that someone would kill
- many years later
- to protect? Ann Cleeves' striking Shetland novel explores the tensions between tradition & modernity that lie deep at the heart of a community & how events from the past can have devastating effects on the present Also available in the Shetland series are Raven Black White Nights Red Bones Blue Lightning & Dead Water