White Nights
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3.8 • 31 Ratings
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
Distracting mispronunciation
For me, the quality of the narration dictates my enjoyment of the book. In this case, the tone of the narrator's voice is pleasing but he continually mispronounces the last name of the main character, Jimmy Perez. Per-EZ. The narrator pronounces it so it sounds like "Paris." It is driving me crazy. Also when the narrator is simply reading it's OK but as soon as he goes into a character everybody sounds like a 70 year old male fisherman, whether the character is male, female, young or old. I'm not sure I can finish listening to it even though it's a great story and I love the author.