Shetland Island Books in Order

On a snowy New Year’s Day in Shetland, an artist finds the body of a teenage girl lying in a field, ravens circling overhead. Suspicion falls on a lonely outcast, but Inspector Jimmy Perez must look beyond village gossip to uncover the killer within the close community.

During the Shetland “white nights,” when darkness barely falls, an exhibition at a remote gallery is disrupted by a stranger who breaks down in tears and claims not to know his own name. Next day he is found hanged in a boathouse, and Perez has to navigate artists, family ties and midsummer madness to understand why.

On a small Shetland island, an archaeology dig uncovers human remains that may be centuries old—or not. When an elderly woman is fatally shot soon after, Jimmy Perez must decide whether the past has come violently into the present or someone is using history as a smokescreen.

Jimmy Perez takes his fiancée to his home island of Fair Isle, where a bird observatory packed with visiting twitchers is lashed by storms. Cut off from the mainland, the guests are trapped together when a celebrated ornithologist is murdered, forcing Perez to hunt a killer among people he knows too well.

When a journalist returns to Shetland to dig into a controversial story and is found dead, an outsider detective, Willow Reeves, is sent to lead the case. Jimmy Perez, still grieving, is drawn back into policing as they explore old scandals and new resentments on the islands.

A group of old university friends travel to Unst, Shetland’s most northerly island, for a wedding. After claiming to see the ghost of a drowned child, one woman vanishes into the mist; her body later appears in a loch, and Perez and Willow must separate legend from motive.

During the funeral of Magnus Tait, torrential rain triggers a landslide that tears through a supposedly empty Shetland croft. Among the wreckage Jimmy Perez finds the body of an unknown woman in a red dress, and learns she was dead before the mud hit, leading to a chilling investigation into her hidden life.

In the Scottish Borders village of Stonebridge, young teacher Anna Blackwell is found dead and police lean toward suicide or accident. Jimmy Perez is asked by his ex‑wife to look again, probing rumours about her new husband, a missing child’s future and a death that may be murder.

An English family move to Shetland hoping its quiet will help their autistic son, but gossip erupts when their young nanny is found hanging in their barn. As rumours of an affair spread, Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves dig into the neighbours’ grudges and the family’s own buried tensions.