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Shetland Islands Inspector Jimmy Perez returns in this third Shetland Islands novel, Red Bones. Hattie James is working towards achieving her PhD in archeology. She is currently working on her thesis. If she doesn’t find something of interest soon, she will have to pack up the excavation and leave. One of the residents, a woman named Evelyn wants to join the dig. Hattie agrees and her and Evelyn start digging at a practice site. What they dig up will have the whole island in an upheaval. Mima Wilson is not a very well liked woman. She is judgmental and rude. So when she is found shot to death, her death brings mixed emotions. Inspector Perez can usually keep his work from becoming personal but this time is different. Mima was the grandmother of Perez’s assistant, Sandy Wilson. Inspector Perez starts doing some investigating. He wonders if Mima’s death and the discovery at the excavation site are somehow connected and if so…who would want Mima dead? This is the million dollar question. ...

Another book that sounds like it will be a good one. Winner of Britain’s coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, Ann Cleeves introduces a dazzling new suspense series to U.S. mystery readers. Raven Black begins on New Year’s Eve with a lonely outcast named Magnus Tait, who stays home waiting for visitors who never come. But the next morning the body of a murdered teenage girl is discovered nearby, and suspicion falls on Magnus. Inspector Jimmy Perez enters an investigative maze that leads deeper into the past of the Shetland Islands than anyone wants to go.