In this gloriously illustrated companion to her novels, Ann Cleeves takes readers through a year on Shetland, learning about its past, meeting its people, celebrating its festivals and seeing how the flora and fauna of the islands changes with the seasons. It is a place where traditions are valued and celebrated, but new technologies and ways of working are also embraced. It has sheltered voes and beaches and dramatically exposed cliffs, lush meadows full of wild flowers in the summer and bleak hilltops where only the hardiest of plants will grow. Its fifteen hundred miles of shore mean that wherever one stands, there is a view of the sea. Is there a secret that lies behind the myth? One so shocking that someone would kill - many years later - to protect?Īn archipelago of more than a hundred islands, it is the one of the most remote places in the United Kingdom. But Jimmy and Willow are convinced that there is more to Eleanor's death than they first thought. Her interest in the ghost had seemed unhealthy - obsessive, even - to her friends: an indication of a troubled mind. Before she went missing, Eleanor claimed to have seen the ghost of a local child who drowned in the 1920s. And then Eleanor's body is discovered, lying in a small loch close to the cliff edge.ĭetectives Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves are dispatched to Unst to investigate. It appears to be a suicide note, saying she'll never be found alive.
But late on the night of the wedding party, one of them, Eleanor, disappears - apparently into thin air. The following day, Eleanor's friend Polly receives an email.
A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Unst, Shetland's most northerly island, to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends to a Shetlander.
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