Ann Cleeves - Red Bones

ANN CLEEVES

RED BONES

Ann Cleeves has so far not disappointed me, and this is not an exception. She paints the characters so well that you can't help either wanting them to get their come-upance  or rooting for it to turn out well for them. I don't know how accurate her picture is of Shetland life, but it is convincing.

Fortunately this book is not spoiled by the TV series, Douglas Henshall is a convincing "Perez", (though his hair should have been darker). The story line has the usual dead ends and twists, but I think for me the attraction is the bigger picture of peoples lives and the Islands History.

Not a blood and gore crime story, or not even a locked room mystery, I either didn't spot, or it wasn't there, the moment of Agathenian insight that told Perez the answer, but I don't feel cheated, I enjoyed this book.