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Thin Air
- Shetland, Book 6
- Narrated by: Kenny Blyth
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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Summary
A woman disappears under ghostly circumstances, and Inspector Jimmy Perez must separate fact from fiction in Thin Air, the sixth Shetland mystery from Ann Cleeves.
Now a major BBC One drama, Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall.
A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London, travelling to Shetland to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends to a local. But late on the night of the wedding party, one of them, Eleanor, disappears–apparently into thin air.
Detectives Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves are dispatched to investigate. Before she went missing, Eleanor claimed to have seen the ghost of a local child who drowned in the 1920s. Jimmy and Willow are convinced that there is more to Eleanor’s disappearance than they first thought. Is there a secret that lies behind the myth? One so shocking that many years later someone would kill to protect it?
Continue the thrilling mystery series with Cold Earth.
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- TT
- 17-12-22
A good read
Great story and plot, with a twist at the end. Ann Cleeves is very good at making you imagine the mysterious world of the very far north of Scotland !!
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- Lala
- 28-11-23
Excellent
Really enjoyable tale which kept me guessing till near the end. Cleverly written & another belter
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- Greg
- 18-04-24
Believable characters and plot
Shetland comes alive when I listen to these stories. I find them a great diversion.
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- felicity r.
- 18-09-22
Enjoyable Who-done-it
Entertaining, atmospheric with an unexpected plot twist. As always Cleeves makes we want to visit the Shetlands.
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- Julie Domaille
- 06-11-22
I love Jimmy Perez
love the story, it trips along nicely drawing me in but plot alittle far-fetched
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- Blue_23
- 29-10-23
All about illusion & distorted perception!
As always lots of great atmosphere to enjoy in a Shetland series book.
This time the story is set in Unst, Shetland's most northerly island. A 'homefarin' brings three old university friends there with their partners, to celebrate the wedding of one of them to a Shetlander lad. Two of the group, Eleanor, a film producer who's in the middle of a project, about ghosts & contemporary hauntings and Polly, a librarian who specialises in folk stories, British myths & legends, both separately claim to have glimpsed a little girl in white with ribbons in her hair dancing on the beach, a seeming spectre who disappeared into thin air. Then Eleanor goes missing, only for her body to be discovered, obviously arranged, in a small nearby lochan close to a standing stone. A still grieving Jimmy Perez along with Sandy, who growing slightly more confident in his own policing skills are called into investigate. They're joined by the short-tempered, scruffy Willow Reeves, who I find too childish, irritating to be a chief inspector!!!
A fictitious legend about Peerie Lizzie, a ten year old girl, who allegedly haunts the beach of her mysteriously drowning in 1930 & is immortalised in a children's song; along with Shetland's actual shifting fogs / swirling mists & the 'simmer dim', the distorting milky twilight of the midsummer sun that never properly sets, provides a supernatural feel.
Thin Air is quite the elaborate murder mystery that skirts around fantasy & reality, with the investigation taking the team into ghost stories, abandoned crofts, and family histories better left forgotten. But, in the end it's a mothers obsessive protectiveness of her son and a scam, an illusion that causes a murderer to haunt's Unst's cliffs & shoreline.
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- Irene S.
- 01-09-22
Thin Air
Another superbly written Shetland murder mystery Keeps you guessing right to the last chapter. Perez is brought to life by the excellent voice of Kenny Blyth
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- appleydappley
- 24-02-23
Good, involving story
Beautifully read and very atmospheric- a good involving story with plenty of twists. You’re emotionally invested in Perez and the Shetlanders.
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- SACare
- 19-02-23
Perfect mystery story with excellent narration
Kenny Blyth does real justice to the Shetland series. He's well paced and believable. Even his English accents are convincing and, therefore, don't detract from the characters' believability.
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- Customer
- 11-07-23
Even better than the series
Took a little while to get used to the narrator for Shetland but now really enjoy his voice.
Even better than the series
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