Kenny Blyth

One Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide and a flood of peaty water smash through an uninhabited croft house. In the wreckage, Jimmy Perez finds the body of a woman wearing a red silk dress. When it emerges that she was already dead before the landslide hit the house, Perez knows he must find out who she was and how she died.  Book 7 of series.

When the body of journalist Jerry Markham is found in a traditional Shetland boat, 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.  Book 5 of series.

When Gilbert Cunningham, a notary-in-training, finds the body of a young woman in the new cathedral in Glasgow, he is asked to investigate. He identifies the corpse as the wife of nobleman John Semphill. A second murder complicates matters and Gil travels to the Isle of Bute with a master mason from the cathedral, to unravel the mystery.

A group of old university friends leave London and travel to Shetland to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends. But, one of them, Eleanor, disappears, apparently into thin air. When her body is discovered lying in a small loch, Detectives Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves are dispatched to Unst to investigate.  Book 6 of series.

When young teacher Anna Blackwell is found dead in her home, the police think her death was suicide or a tragic accident. After all, Stonebridge is a quiet country village in the Scottish Borders, where murders just don't happen.

But Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez soon arrives from far-away Shetland when his ex-wife, Sarah, asks him to look into the case. The local gossips are saying that her new husband, Tom, was having an affair with Anna. Could Tom have been involved with her death? Sarah refuses to believe it - but needs proof.

Anna had been a teacher. She must have loved kids. Would she kill herself knowing there was nobody to look after her daughter? She had seemed happier than ever before she died. And to Perez, this suggests not suicide, but murder...

A Shetland novella.

Hoping for a fresh start, an English family moves to the remote Shetland islands, eager to give their autistic son a better life. But when a young nanny's body is found hanging in the barn beside their home, rumors of her affair with the husband spread like wildfire. As suspicion and resentment of the family blazes in the community, Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate.  Book 8 of series.