A stunning second installment in the acclaimed Shetland Island
Quartet, White Nights is sure to garner American raves for
international sensation Ann Cleeves. This series is the basis for the
hit BBC show Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall, which attracted over
12 million viewers in its first two nights on the air.
Raven Black received crime fiction's highest monetary honor, the
Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award. Now Detective Jimmy Perez is back in an
electrifying sequel.
It's midsummer in the Shetland Islands, the time of the white nights,
when birds sing at midnight and the sun never sets. Artist Bella
Sinclair throws an elaborate party to launch an exhibition of her work
at The Herring House, a gallery on the beach.
The party ends in farce when one the guests, a mysterious Englishman,
bursts into tears and claims not to know who he is or where he's come
from. The following day the Englishman is found hanging from a rafter,
and Detective Jimmy Perez is convinced that the man has been murdered.
He is reinforced in this belief when Roddy, Bella's musician nephew, is
murdered, too.
But the detective's relationship with Fran Hunter may have clouded his
judgment, for this is a crazy time of the year when night blurs into day
and nothing is quite as it seems.