Ann Cleeves. (2018). Wild Fire: Shetland Island Mysteries Series, Book 8. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Ann Cleeves. 2018. Wild Fire: Shetland Island Mysteries Series, Book 8. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Ann Cleeves, Wild Fire: Shetland Island Mysteries Series, Book 8. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2018.

Ann Cleeves. Wild Fire: Shetland Island Mysteries Series, Book 8. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2018.

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     ANN CLEEVES is the multi-million copy bestselling author behind three hit television series—Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall, Vera, starring Academy Award Nominee Brenda Blethyn, and The Long Call, starring Ben Aldridge—all of which are watched and loved in the United States. All three are available on BritBox.
     The first Shetland novel, Raven Black, won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for best crime novel, and Ann was awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger in 2017. She was awarded the OBE in 2022 for services to reading and libraries. Ann lives in the United Kingdom.

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Wild Fire is the much-anticipated final entry in Ann Cleeves's beloved Shetland series, which is now a hit television show starring Douglas Henshall.
"Nothing short of riveting."—Louise Penny on Blue Lightning
"Gripping from start to finish."—Booklist
The betrayal of those closest burns most of all . . .

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. He knows it will mean his boss, Willow Reeves, returning to run the investigation, and confronting their complex relationship.
With families fracturing and long-hidden lies emerging, Jimmy faces the most disturbing case of his career.

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   • source: Ragnar Jonasson, author of The Darkness
   • content: "A fantastic end to one of the key detective series of the past decade."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly (starred)
   • content: "Intricately plotted and elegantly written, this installment is billed as Perez's final case. Series fans will be sorry to see the last of him."
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   • source: Library Journal (starred)
   • content: "Compelling...Throughout the "Shetland Island" series, Cleeves lovingly depicts the Scottish island life, and this volume is no exception. Fans may be saddened but certainly not disappointed by this final installment."
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   • source: Kirkus Reviews
   • content: "The final case in this complex, character-driven series is a tour de force."
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   • source: Globe and Mail
   • content: "Wild Fire is one of the best books in her long series. It's the perfect end for this complex character wedded to this past and this place."
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   • source: Louise Penny
   • content: "Nothing short of riveting."
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   • source: Colin Dexter, author of the Inspector Morse series
   • content: "In true Christie fashion, Cleeves once more pulls the wool over our eyes with cunning and conviction."
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   • source: The Washington Post Book World
   • content: "Intricate and engrossing...offers readers the pleasures of the traditional locked room/isolated island mystery."
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   • source: Booklist (starred)
   • content: "Cleeves has an unusually deft hand with characters; not one of them seems purely plot functional, and Perez's characters keeps deepening with each book."
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      July 1, 2018
      A long look into the dynamics of a troubled family is needed to solve several murders.Inspector Jimmy Perez is intrigued when he gets a visit from Helena Fleming, a newcomer to the Shetland Isles who's well-known as a designer of garments featuring Shetland wool. The local man from whom Helena and her husband had purchased their house hanged himself in the barn after he landed in dire financial straits, causing not only consternation but a certain resentment among the locals. Now Helena has received little images of gallows and hanged men written on bits of graph paper and is concerned about the effect they might have on her autistic son, Christopher, who's already being taunted by some other children. Because his dead lover, Fran, was an artist and he helps care for her daughter, Jimmy is sympathetic to Helena's plight. But it takes the discovery of Emma Shearer, a friend's nanny who's found dead in the Flemings' barn, to kick the investigation into high gear. When Jimmy's boss, Willow Reeves, arrives from the mainland and reveals that she's pregnant by Jimmy, their fragile, complex relationship is shattered by his inability to come to terms with her news. Instead, he and his team focus on unearthing motives for Emma's strangling. Emma had to deal with a boyfriend whose protective mother hated her, the not-totally-unwelcome attentions of Helena's infatuated husband, and her problems with at least the two older Moncrieff children, whose welfare had been left almost entirely in her hands while their parents pursued their own interests. The deeper the detectives dig into Emma's unfortunate past and those of their suspects, the more convoluted and difficult the case becomes.Fans disappointed to see the last of Cleeves' hero will be happy to know that the final case in this complex, character-driven series (Cold Earth, 2017, etc.) is a tour de force.

      COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      Starred review from July 9, 2018
      In CWA Diamond Dagger–winner Cleeves’s excellent eighth Shetland Island mystery (after 2017’s Cold Earth), designer Helena Fleming and her family have settled in a remote community on Shetland, where she has become a local celebrity by using “Shetland wool to create garments that were shown at London Fashion Week.” One day, Helena is dismayed to find a crude drawing tucked inside a copy of the Shetland Times depicting a gallows. Soon afterward, her 11-year-old son discovers the body of their neighbor’s young nanny, Emma Shearer, hanging from a beam in their byre. Det. Insp. Jimmy Perez, who initially takes charge of what could be a murder case, calls in a crime team from Inverness, which includes his occasional lover, Willow Reeves, who brings emotional complications to the investigation. A number of local residents appear to have had some sort of an ax to grind with Emma, and several suspects emerge. Intricately plotted and elegantly written, this installment is billed as Perez’s final case. Series fans will be sorry to see the last of him. Agent: Sarah Menguc, Sarah Menguc Literary Agent (U.K.).

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      Starred review from August 1, 2018
      

      To paraphrase T.S. Eliot: to make an end is to make a beginning. Jimmy Perez, Cleeves's brooding Shetland Islands police officer, returns for his final compelling case (after Cold Earth). A family new to the islands has been subjected to poison-pen letters. The son then finds a young woman--a nanny to another family in the area--hanged in their old barn. The death is deemed suspicious, and DCI Willow Reeves, Perez's boss, is dispatched from Inverness to lead the investigation. Soon another body is recovered. Life is complicated for Perez, who blames himself for the murder of his beloved girlfriend and now has growing admiration for Reeves, who's just arrived with shocking news for him. As the dense Shetland fog shrouds the islands, the pair work to unravel decades of secrets and cruelty to catch a murderer. VERDICT Throughout the "Shetland Island" series, Cleeves lovingly depicts the Scottish island life, and this volume is no exception. Fans may be saddened but certainly not disappointed by this final installment. [See Prepub Alert, 3/12/18.]--Penelope J.M. Klein, Fayetteville, NY

      Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      August 1, 2018
      

      The good news: here's the next in Diamond Dagger Award Winner Cleeves's beloved "Shetland Island" series starring Inspector Jimmy Perez. The bad news: it's the finale. Designer Helena Fleming and her architect husband have remade their lives by moving with their children to a distant corner of the Shetlands. Then Helena starts receiving spooky hanged-man-and-gallows drawings.

      Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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"Nothing short of riveting."—Louise Penny on Blue Lightning
"Gripping from start to finish."—Booklist
The betrayal of those closest burns most of all . . .

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. He knows it will mean his boss, Willow Reeves, returning to run the investigation, and confronting their complex relationship.
With families fracturing and long-hidden lies emerging,...

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