Cold Earth (Shetland, Band 7)

The rains came down . . .

In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a
landslide that crosses the road and sweeps down to the sea.
At the burial of an old friend, DI Jimmy Perez watches the flood of
mud and peaty water smash through a croft house in its path.

. . . and washed a body out

Everyone thinks the croft is uninhabited, but in the rubble he finds
the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress.

Perez soon becomes obsessed with tracing her identity. Then it
emerges that she was already dead before the landslide hit
the house. Perez feels bound by duty - and something more
powerful - to find out who she was, and how she died.



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