Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! This week, Ann Cleeves’s eighth and final Shetland Island Mystery combines with Courtney Summers’s breakout YA thriller to highlight an amazing week…
Red Bones by Ann Cleeves is the third book in the Shetland Island Mysteries series, which is the basis for the hit BBC show Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall, which attracted over 12 million viewers in its first two nights on the air. In anticipation of the eighth and final book in Shetland Island Mysteries series, Wild Fire (available September…
Wild Fire is the much-anticipated eighth and final entry in Ann Cleeves’s beloved Shetland Island series. When the Flemings―designer Helena and architect Daniel―move into a remote community in the north of Shetland, they think it’s a fresh start for themselves and their children. But their arrival triggers resentment, and Helena begins to receive small drawings of…
When you think of the best of British crime drama, Ann Cleeves’s name is always near the top. From the highly successful Vera Stanhope series to the critically acclaimed Shetland Island mysteries (both of which have been adapted into fantastic television shows), Cleeves has cemented herself as a force to be reckoned with. But we…
Raven Black by Ann Cleeves is the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award-winning series debut of the Shetland Island Mysteries featuring Inspector Jimmy Perez. Get a digital copy of the first book in Ann Cleeves’s Shetland Island Mysteries—the basis for the BBC hit series Shetland—Raven Black, for only $2.99 through the month of June! It is a cold…
Cold Earth is the 7th book in the Shetland Island Mystery series. Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez is attending the funeral of friend Magnus Tait, body just laid to rest in the ground, when a landslide occurs and wreaks havoc in Ravenswick, Shetland. The natural destruction cuts off the main drag to the airport, shuts schools,…
This cocktail may not actually cool the Earth, but it's a great way to celebrate Earth Day and Ann Cleeves's 7th Shetland Island Mystery, Cold Earth! So go green with this week's Pick Your Poison—where we create a cocktail inspired by a recently published mystery, thriller, or crime novel—the “Earth Day Cooler” cocktail!
There are few settings more suited to mystery and murder than the remote Shetland Islands. They lie north of Scotland, not far from the tip of Norway, and just east of Iceland. Only 16 of the 100 islands are inhabited, the winters are long and dark, and a ferry from the islands to the closest…
Cold Earth is the 7th book in the Shetland Island Mystery series (available April 18, 2017). In the dark 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, Jimmy Perez watches the flood of…
Most of us love the idea of islands—their beauty, their singularity, their separation from the wider world. And, of course, we all believe that life may somehow be easier on islands, more laid back, simpler, even Edenic. But islands have their dark side, too. And just as most of us are drawn to the mythic…
