Cold Earth is the seventh book in Ann Cleeves' bestselling Shetland series
- a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall In the dark days of a Shetland winter torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main Lerwick-Sumburgh road & sweeps down to the sea At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait Jimmy Perez watches the flood of mud & peaty water 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 In his mind she shares his Mediterranean ancestry & soon he becomes obsessed with tracing her identity Then it emerges that she was already dead before the landslide hit the house Perez knows he must find out who she was & how she died Also available in the Shetland series are Raven Black White Nights Red Bones Blue Lightning Dead Water & Thin Air