Book description
Dead Water is the fifth book in Ann Cleeves' Shetland series - which is
now the major BBC1 drama starring Douglas Henshall, SHETLAND. When the
body of journalist Jerry Markham is found in a traditional Shetland
boat, outside the house of the Fiscal, down at the Marina, young
Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted in to head up the
investigation. Since the death of his fiancée, Inspector Jimmy Perez has
been out of the loop, but his interest in this new case is stirred and
he decides to help the inquiry. Markham - originally a Shetlander but
who had made a name for himself in London - had left the islands years
before. In his wake, he left a scandal involving a young girl, Evie
Watt, who is now engaged to a seaman. He had few friends in Shetland, so
why was he back? Willow and Jimmy are led to Sullum Voe, the heart of
Shetland's North Sea oil and gas industry. It soon emerges from their
investigation that Markham was chasing a story in his final days. One
that must have been significant enough to warrant his death . . . Also
available in the Shetland series are Raven Black, White Nights, Red
Bones and Blue Lightning. Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series (ITV
television drama VERA) contains five titles, of which The Glass Room is
the most recent. Ann Cleeves is the author behind ITV's VERA and BBC
One's SHETLAND. She has written over twenty-five novels, and is the
creator of detectives Vera Stanhope and Jimmy Perez - characters loved
both on screen and in print. Her books have now sold over 1 million
copies worldwide.
