Cold Earth by Ann Cleeves

Cold Earth by Ann Cleeves
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 and sweeps down to the sea.

At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Jimmy Perez watches the flood
of mud and 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 and 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, and how she died.

Also available in the Shetland series are Raven Black, White Nights, Red
Bones, Blue Lightning, Dead Water and Thin Air.