![]() This is the first novel in Cleeves’ Shetland series, the books behind the successful TV series of the same name. But Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez, another outsider, isn’t convinced… She was known to have been in Magnus’ company a couple of times, so his guilt seems certain. ![]() And Catherine was interested in people, and perhaps a little cruel sometimes. ![]() Catherine Ross was an outsider, though, her father having brought her to the island just recently, after the death of her mother. That child disappeared and her body was never found, and no evidence was found to allow the police to charge Magnus with the crime, but ever since the islanders have kept their children well away from him. ![]() The islanders immediately jump to the conclusion that she was killed by Magnus Tait, an elderly loner who has long been convicted in the public mind of the murder of another girl several years earlier. A few days after New Year, sixteen-year-old Catherine Ross is found strangled in the snow in the middle of a field. ![]()
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