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Red Bones
Red Bones: A Thriller | Ann Cleeves
When a young archaeologist discovers a set of human remains, the locals are intrigued. Is it an ancient findor a more contemporary mystery? Then an elderly woman is fatally shot and Ann Cleeves's popular series detective Jimmy Perez is called in. As claustrophobic mists swirl around the island, Inspector Perez finds himself totally in the dark. This series is the basis for the hit BBC show Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall, which attracted over 12 million viewers in its first two nights on the air.
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When an elderly woman is shot in a tragic accident , Shetland detective Jimmy Perez is called to investigate. The sparse landscape and the emptiness of the ses have bred fierce and secretive people. Then there's another death, and, as the spring weather shrouds the island in mist, Jimmy must dig up old secrets to stop a new killer from striking again.

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After an archaeological dig on Sandy Wilson's grandmother's land unearths a skull and other bone fragments, the old lady is found dead. A tragic accident when a neighbour was out hunting rabbits or something more sinister?

A good mystery and it was interesting to see a bit of Sandy's backstory and for him to get some character development, but I could have done with a family tree.

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Mollyanna
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Here are my #bookspin and #doublespin. So excited. I love the 2nd of each month!!!

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 3y
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kspenmoll
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Parent conferences today. I have time off in between so I am visiting the Shetland Islands.

Chrissyreadit I just love Shetland the tv series so much. I‘m dying for the next episode. I‘m sure I should read the books. What grade do you teach? 3y
Chrissyreadit Also, do you like chocolate? 3y
kspenmoll @Chrissyreadit I just started this series. I am just fascinated by the Shetland Islands themselves- learning so much about them! I am a special education teacher, 9-12, in an inclusive school. I also co-teach 9 grade English, which I love. Yes I afore chocolate! 3y
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Chrissyreadit Ohhh!!! That‘s intense! I taught Special Ed between early intervention and counseling. Any favorite chocolates? 3y
BiblioLitten I love the Shetland series too. I haven‘t read the books but when I finish the series, I will read the book. 🙂 @Chrissyreadit 3y
Chrissyreadit @kspenmoll what state do you teach in? I hope you get a lot of support! ❤️ 3y
Chrissyreadit @BiblioLitten I just added the first one to my TBR because I‘m not sure when the next Shetland series will come out- but I wonder if audio would be better? I agree with @kspenmoll the islands are fascinating- I would love to visit them someday. 3y
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Susanita
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It‘s a #beginswith two-fer!

I completely forgot to post the pictured book yesterday. It‘s on my #roll100 list for the year but wasn‘t picked this month. #secret

In the tagged book, we learn that excavated bones turn #red and that Sandy‘s family is a little dysfunctional!

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Loved this one!! 3y
Eggs Great double play!! 3y
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TheAromaofBooks
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It's funny to me that this is only the third book in the series because I feel like I have been reading them forever (although not in a bad way lol). Here we leave the main island for an even smaller community. I really liked getting to know Perez's coworker even better. Cleeves uses third person to allow the reader to see what is happening from multiple perspectives, which I like. I only had three pages left when they finished my oil change ⬇️

TheSpineView Great job! 3y
Chrissyreadit I‘ve just started watching Vera and I love Shetland. 3y
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Jas16
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Not the book I was intending to read but the heart wants what it wants and yesterday mine wanted me to wander into a book store and leave with this one. I feel no remorse even though I have bought way too many books lately. I have missed the Shetland islands and Inspector Perez. I find this series relaxing even though I kept guessing who the killer was and was still wrong in the end. #booked2021 #colorintitle

Chrissyreadit I‘m watching Shetland right now. 4y
Jas16 @Chrissyreadit How do you like it? I have not been able to watch yet. 4y
Chrissyreadit @Jas16 to be honest, I‘m usually really good with understanding people with accents, but I‘m struggling with some of the faster speakers and missing info. I‘m hoping the more I get used to hearing it the more I can follow. 4y
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Tera66 I have fallen off the wagon on book buying too. But no regrets on this one though, right?! 4y
Jas16 @Tera66 None whatsoever! 4y
Jas16 @Chrissyreadit I can totally understand that. 4y
Suet624 Bookstores thank you. 3y
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MicheleinPhilly
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I was already familiar with this particular story as it was the basis for the first episode of Shetland (which is the only episode I‘ve seen 😬.) Still, Cleeves‘ writing is so richly detailed I never felt as if I was “wasting time.” She just transports me each and every time. #SeriesRead2021

LeahBergen I‘ve been watching Vera and keep meaning to try an episode of this. 4y
MicheleinPhilly @LeahBergen I‘m going through serious Vera withdrawal! 4y
Lynnsoprano I love both the tv series and the books—both Shetland and Vera. 4y
Jaimelire Love her books and the show ❤️ 4y
TheSpineView Great job! 4y
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Lynnsoprano
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This is the best Shetland mystery I‘ve read so far. I‘m kicking myself that I didn‘t figure out who the murderer was until the end. Looking back, it was obvious 🤦‍♀️ Such great characters. I can‘t wait to get hold of the next one.

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Lynnsoprano
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Of course both my library holds came in at the same time 😄 Shetland takes priority, though. I am loving this series. (Sorry for the glare).

CBee Your nails are very festive 😁😁 4y
Cathythoughts Love the nails 4y
dylanisreading Love your nails! 4y
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BookishMarginalia
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I‘ve been on an #AnnCleeves binge lately... the audiobooks are great! (From Hoopla and Scribd). Mysteries help me cope with these challenging times.

erzascarletbookgasm I love this series, need to catch up. 4y
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EadieB
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Day 8 - #Red #WordsOfOctober
#RedBones #AnnCleeves

This is another great Shetland novel.

OriginalCyn620 📚👍🏻📚 4y
BlackCat13 I love Ann Cleeves 4y
EadieB @BlackCat13 Great writer! 4y
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Susanita
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Day 2 of #20series20days takes us to the windswept and spooky Shetland islands. I put this book on hold with cloudLibrary which said the wait would be 19 days. Instead I got it the same week! Since my next trip to UK is postponed until who knows when, I‘ll just have to travel there through books.

Now that I‘ve read this installment in the series, I do have a few quibbles (see comments), but I liked the Sandy background.

#Top20series

Susanita Quibbles. 1. It started off with one of my pet peeves that turns up too often in mysteries and thrillers: the cliche “she heard someone screaming and realized it was herself” and in this case I‘m not sure how much the opening vignette added to the story. 4y
Susanita 2. It needed better copy editing. She mentions the trows numerous times, sometimes explaining them, sometimes re-explaining, and sometimes not. Meanwhile WTF is a pelagic trawler? Also it was hard to keep the Wilson family tree straight sometimes. 4y
Susanita 3. The audiobook had technical problems. The reader was fine, but several chapters were cut abruptly. I had to find an ebook version on a different platform to follow along and make sure I didn‘t miss anything. A couple chapters actually dropped several sentences! 4y
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Susanita That said, I did enjoy the book, perhaps just not quite as much as the first two, and I‘m looking forward to the next one even though I know (vaguely) what‘s coming. Also...some interesting changes were made to the TV adaptation! 4y
TrishB Love this series. 4y
Andrew65 I love this series and it was my Day 1 choice. However I agree about ‘she heard someone screaming and realized it was herself‘. Also hate it when they mess up the audiobooks. The next book is crucial in the series. (edited) 4y
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LibraryCin
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There are a lot of characters and I had a hard time keeping some of them straight, especially as to how they related to each other. I did think the book picked up in the second half when the second body was found. Or, really, when it appeared the person was missing. For the first half of the book, I thought it was time to give up on the series, but with the second half, I think I‘ll do one more. Just not on audio.

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Blaire
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This was my favorite of the series so far. I liked getting more of Sandy‘s backstory and watching his character evolve into a competent and more confident detective. An archaeological dig leads to some surprising discoveries and more than one death! @Cathythoughts quickly working my way through these - nice that so many are on hoopla.

Cathythoughts Nice review! I need to get back to these .... ❤️ 5y
Cathythoughts I‘m halfway through Bluebird Bluebird ... have you read this crime one ? Excellent stuff (edited) 5y
Blaire @Cathythoughts not yet. But I want to! I think it would be right up my alley. 5y
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Christinak
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They‘d reached the dip in the land that led to Setter, the most sheltered spot on the island. The merchant had chosen the land for his grand house well. Hattie wondered if it had the same name then, something similar perhaps which had become #corrupted over the years. #corrupt #QuotsyDec19

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BridgetteM
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Today‘s book and lunch! 😋 My office moved across town this week and I am enjoyimg the change of scenery and yummy restaurants that are close by.

night_shift Those rolls look yummy! 5y
BridgetteM @UnidragonFrag Thanks! They were really good. :) 5y
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This month for National Library Card Sign up month, my local library was offering newly designed library cards for free. I love my new card! The old one was a plain, ugly yellow. This is so much better. Of course I had to pick up a couple of murder mysteries to read too.

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A great read in this series. Love the characters and the landscape, kept me guessing until the end!
Today‘s been a good day, sport, family roast dinner, wine, finished this book and it‘s a bank holiday and I booked Tuesday off too. No Sunday grumps today 😁

RaimeyGallant This is one of my fave tv series. I really should read the books! 5y
TrishB @RaimeyGallant @ShelleyBooksie mentioned the tv series earlier- I‘ve never seen it! 5y
Tamra Yay! I love it when the weekend doesn‘t have a Monday cloud. (edited) 5y
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TrishB @Tamra oh me too 😁 just so relaxing and when no one has to get up for anything the next day it means no one is sat there grumbling! 5y
RaimeyGallant You're in for a treat! 5y
MicheleinPhilly I‘m so jealous! I‘m hopeful this will be a quiet week as it is the unofficial “last week of summer.” 🤞🏼Also, I need to go back to this series. 5y
JennyM I‘m firmly in the Monday grumps now as we head out of the house - booo!!!! Enjoy your long weekend. 🙌 5y
Ruthiella Sounds like a perfect day! Enjoy your time off!😁 5y
erzascarletbookgasm Yay! Another endorsement for this series from my favourite Littens! 5y
CarolynM @RaimeyGallant Same here, I'm told the Jimmy Perez of the TV show is quite a bit different from the one in the books. 5y
RaimeyGallant @CarolynM Interesting... 5y
Cathythoughts What a perfect Sunday 👍🏻♥️ I‘ve had lots of family commitments- so no reading. Can‘t wait to get back to my book in this series ( 2d ) 5y
TrishB @MicheleinPhilly hope your week is wonderful 😁 I have another long weekend in a couple of weeks in Portugal, that will be the end of summer! 5y
TrishB @JennyM hope Monday passed uneventfully 😘 5y
TrishB @Ruthiella it was a lovely day 😘 5y
TrishB @CarolynM @RaimeyGallant I may finish the series then try the telly one! 5y
TrishB @erzascarletbookgasm it‘s a good one 👍🏻 5y
TrishB @Cathythoughts my son has finished his masters dissertation and wants me to proof read today , so a different kind of reading ahead! 5y
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Kindred spirit!! This says so much doesn‘t it, conform or else.

Cathythoughts It does say so much ! Her “ fecklessness” love the word too 5y
TrishB @Cathythoughts it‘s s great word 👍🏻 so old fashioned but so right in these circumstances! 5y
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This is book three of The Shetland series, I missed book two, I quite often read series out of order. A solid mystery with lots of red herrings, I guessed wrong. Shetland is as much a character as the humans who live there, a look into island life a cross the pond.

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Tove_Reads
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The 8 series I‘m juggling with at the moment! Love them all! Also, I‘ve read the first one in a new to me series: Kate Ellis - The Merchant‘s House. Pretty sure these books sound familiar to at least @Andrew65 @EadieB @TrishB

TrishB I don‘t even want to count as I know it will be a lot! But I still can‘t help downloading new series.... 6y
Tove_Reads @TrishB Naturally there are more, but these are the ones I‘m plowing through no matter what! Aaaand I forgot 6y
Tove_Reads Also about to start 6y
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Andrew65 @TrishB I think I‘m juggling well over a 100 series at th moment and that is a very conservative guess. 😳😱😹 6y
TrishB @Andrew65 😂 there‘s comfort in some daft things! This is one of them! 6y
Tove_Reads @andrew65 These are the active ones I need to read atm. So many more in less active modes... Like Rebus (only got the last one left), plus so many that I can‘t get hold of, some I need to get back to, and the ones I don‘t even know have a new one. 6y
Tove_Reads @andrew65 And let‘s not forget the ones I‘ve only read the first one in the series, like James Rollins. 6y
Andrew65 @TrishB OMG 😳😱🤣 My Librarything account shows 505! (Yes 505 Series). Although to be fair have finished some of those series and some others I don‘t plan to finish. Even surprises me. And daft I think sums me up. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🙋🏻‍♂️ @Tove_Reads 6y
TrishB @Andrew65 😁 I was applying it equally! I don‘t want to count, but 505 seems a lot!! 6y
Andrew65 @TrishB I think that total must include the trilogies too. But still......😬😔 6y
Andrew65 @Tove_Reads What‘s the third one down on the right? 6y
Tove_Reads @Andrew65 Reckoning 6y
Andrew65 @Tove_Reads Thanks 😊 6y
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rabbitprincess
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Now I think I've settled into this series. (Normally I prefer to read out of order, but I have been reading in order with this one.) I requested the next book right away!

Melissa_J Is this a Vera book or a Shetland book? 6y
rabbitprincess @Melissa_J It's the third Shetland book. 6y
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Peggyherself
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Another great read full of atmosphere and sense of place with characters you can invest in! Love this series.

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mollyk
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Kolmas osa

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JulieAnn
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Another great entry in the Shetland series. Of course, my library doesn‘t have the next book!

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Crinoline_Laphroaig
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Another great mystery! I found the Shetland Bus fascinating. I need to do some reading about this particular history of WW2 Shetland and Norway.
#shetland #seriesbinge #mynewobsession📚

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Katiesbookishlife
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Current reading view - a much needed holiday with a lovely mystery book to go with it. #onholidays

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DarleneD
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Great read.

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KaatjeH
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This is my favourite kind of friday night!
Pyjama, #morbidelli and a good book 😊

#catsoflitsy

emmaturi I love the Shetland series with Jimmy Perez! 7y
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Dietz123
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This is a well written murder mystery. Nice local flavor. I liked the plot, it was not predictable. Gore and violence were kept to a minimum.
However, I wasn't sure why anyone would want to live there in Shetland. I also got tired of hearing about family dynamics, which are a constant part of the narrative.

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howjessicareads
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#17rainbowbooks - day 5 - #bluecover. I love the Shetland series SO MUCH. They have to be read in order though, start with Raven Black! I also enjoy that none of them have a color cover that matches the color word in the title. It's a fun contrast.

Dragon Thanks, will start with Rave Black 👍 8y
Oryx Have you seen the TV series based on them? It's really good. 8y
Emiller Just got Raven Black from the library. Looking forward to reading it!! 😄 8y
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kspenmoll Loved Raven Black but read it long ago so thinking I should reread before I move forward in series. So many book plans, so little time! 8y
howjessicareads @Oryx I can't find it streaming anywhere here!! I want to watch it though! 8y
howjessicareads @Emiller @Dragon - enjoy! The Shetland world is so haunting!! 8y
howjessicareads @kspenmoll I bet you'd remember pretty quickly if you just moved on. You don't need to remember all the details; just the general characters! 🙂 8y
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Bk3 in the Shetland series is another winner for me. For those of you who've seen the TV series, this book is what S1 was based on. Mima Wilson is an old woman, living in her croft in Whalsey, a small isle off Shetland Main. When an archeological dig on her land turns up bones, she's found a week later shot, on the ground next to the dig.At first ruled an accident, suspicions are raised when another person, one of the diggers, is found dead.4⭐️

Wife What is the name of the series? What channel? 8y
Lizpixie @Wife it's called Shetland. It's a BBC England series. I'm pretty sure it's on Netflix.🎞 8y
Wife Thanks. I'll look for it. 8y
JazzFeathers Hey, this sounds intersting. Both the book and the TV series :) 8y
Lizpixie @JazzFeathers I heartily recommend all of Ann Cleeves books & the TV series based on Shetland & Vera. I love them all.❤️ 8y
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Lizpixie
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Of course, the first time I use my ereader in weeks, it craps itself halfway through the book I was, very voraciously, reading! And I don't have a print copy!!😩 This. This is why I will always choose print over ebooks. They don't turn off halfway through. #howfarcanithrowanereader

drbethandherkindle They're pretty light, so many you could throw it a good 25m? 🤾‍♀️ 8y
DivineDiana Oh, technology! 😬 8y
Dragon How frustrating! 📚 8y
JacqMac Ugh! 8y
shelf-improvement Ugh, it's so frustrating when that happens. 8y
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Lizpixie
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Following up with Bk3 from the Shetland series by Ann Cleeves. When an archeological dig turns up human bones everyone assumes they're very old. But then Mima Wilson is found, shot dead outside her croft where the dig is. Everyone assumes it was an accidental shooting by a rabbit poacher, but DI Jimmy Perez isn't so sure. Trying to untangle the family history & grudges is more time consuming than he bargained for, then another body turns up.

Bibliogeekery Ooo, I watched and loved this show but somehow didn't realize there were books!! Thx!! 8y
Ncostell I hadn't heard of this series but I think I'm going to have to check it out! 8y
slhbooks Yet another series that I have to catch up on😉📚 8y
Ncostell So after reading this post, I went to my library book sale and picked up White Nights. Do you think that one would be difficult to get in to without reading the first book in the series or should I wait and read Raven Black first? 8y
Lizpixie @Ncostell I'd read Raven Black first, otherwise you'll lose the continuity and some of the backstory of the characters. 8y
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