As a group of old friends travels from London to the Shetland Islands for a wedding, Kenny Blyth’s narration offers convincing mannerisms and personalities for each. Eleanor, a bridesmaid, sees a little girl dancing on the beach. She’s convinced she’s seeing the ghost of a child drowned in the 1920s. Her friends scoff, but her interest is piqued, and she begins inquiring into the century-old mystery. When Eleanor is found dead, Blyth’s portrayals of detectives Perez and Reeves are spot-on, particularly as they begin to suspect that her interest in the “ghost” might have led to her death. A wedding, a ghost, a death, credible suspects, and Kenny Blyth’s performance make the sixth book in Cleeves’s excellent Shetland Islands series a whole lot of fun. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
Ann Cleeves is back with Thin Air, the sixth book in her beloved Shetland series, which is now a hit television show starring Douglas Henshall.
A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Shetland to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends. But, one of them, Eleanor, disappears-apparently into thin air. It's mid-summer, a time of light nights and unexpected mists. And then Eleanor's body is discovered lying in a small loch close to the cliff edge.
Detectives Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves are dispatched 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 and 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 new novel is a quintessential whodunit with surprises at every turn.
Ann Cleeves is back with Thin Air, the sixth book in her beloved Shetland series, which is now a hit television show starring Douglas Henshall.
A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Shetland to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends. But, one of them, Eleanor, disappears-apparently into thin air. It's mid-summer, a time of light nights and unexpected mists. And then Eleanor's body is discovered lying in a small loch close to the cliff edge.
Detectives Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves are dispatched 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 and 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 new novel is a quintessential whodunit with surprises at every turn.
Thin Air (Shetland Island Series #6)
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Product Details
BN ID: | 2940169138764 |
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Publisher: | Macmillan Audio |
Publication date: | 05/05/2015 |
Series: | Shetland Island Series , #6 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
Sales rank: | 1,008,342 |