Ratings13
Average rating3.8
The second Shetland novel When the sun never sets it brings to light deadly secrets On Shetland the launch of an exhibition at The Herring House art gallery is disturbed by a stranger who bursts into tears, then claims not to remember who he is or where he comes from. The next day Detective Jimmy Perez finds his body in a fisherman’s hut. Initially it seems to be a straightforward case of suicide, yet this is no desperate act and is instead the work of a cold and calculating killer. As Perez investigates, he finds himself mired in the hidden secrets of a small community. Then another body is found. Perez knows he must find the killer before another death occurs. But it is midsummer, an unsettling time when the sun never really sets in Shetland and nothing is quite as it seems . . . White Nights is the second book in Ann Cleeves' bestselling Shetland series – a major BBC One drama, starring Douglas Henshall.
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There was just about enough in the first book in the series to tempt to me to buy the second. I will not be buying any more. It is not just that I never believed that the murderer would have behaved as depicted, nor that the structure of the book rather heavily pointed to the identity of the murderer, it is most particularly that there is something in the style of writing that does not quite work for me.
I think I can understand why they are popular but they just aren't doing it for me.