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Ann Cleeves returns with the sixth book in her acclaimed Shetland series, following Inspector Jimmy Perez and his partner Willow Reeves as they untangle the secrets behind the disappearance of a university friend, Eleanor. After a night of bright summer light and encircling mists, Eleanor is found dead in a small loch near a cliff. Her obsession with a long‑forgotten local ghost and her abrupt vanishing raise questions among her former classmates and the detectives. As Perez and Reeves probe the case, they confront a potentially buried truth connected to a 1920s tragedy—and the lengths some will go to protect it.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: Ann Cleeves
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