Shetland Island

When a teenage girl is murdered on Shetland the locals suspect Magnus Tait, a loner, but the police are determined to open out the investigation. Soon everyone is locking their doors at night fearful of the killer in their midst.  Book 1 of series.

It's mid-summer in Shetland, when the sun never sets. When a mysterious Englishman is found hanging from a rafter in a boathouse on the jetty, a clowns mask on his face, Detective Jimmy Perez is convinced that this is a local murder. But at this crazy time of the year nothing is quite as it seems.  Book 2 of series.

When an elderly woman is shot in a tragic accident, Shetland detective Jimmy Perez is called in by her grandson - his own colleague, Sandy Wilson. Then there's another death and Jimmy must dig up old secrets to stop the killer from striking again...  Book 3 of series.

When a woman's body is discovered at the Fair Isles bird observatory, with feathers threaded through her hair, the islanders react with fear and anger. Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez soon realises that there's a killer on the island just waiting for the opportunity to strike again...  Book 4 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.

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.

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.

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.