Red Bones (Shetland, 3)

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Red Bones was adapted into a 2-part TV show that made up the first series of the of the Scottish television crime drama Shetland. Evelyn Wilson, describing university students working on an archaeological dig: "The two lasses from the university were there. What nice wee girls they are, although I think that Hattie could do with a bit of feeding up.. She's a skinny little thing. All eyes and bone." Shetland is adapted from the novel Red Bones. The book is based around an archaeological dig and the mystery starts with the murder of the elderly woman who crofts the land where the dig is happening. The book and the TV drama is about digging into the past to find answers to family disagreements. And in the TV adaptation there's the wonderful climax of the Viking fire festival 'Up Helly Aa'. The pace of all books I have read in this series is quite slow, much like the pace of life on the islands. This, in my opinion, allows for a strong sense of place and characters I really feel I know and care about. Perez is an admirable investigator, his personal flaws making him more realistic. His strength is in how well he knows human nature.

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Oh, no,' Mima said. Hattie looked up at her and saw that her face was white. 'That cannot be right. No, no, that cannot be.' Ann is an award-winning crime writer who has published eight novels set in Shetland featuring police detective Jimmy Perez. She is also the creator of Vera Stanhope, the detective who features in ITV's popular series Vera. The third story of the Shetland Island series is more personal. A murder that involves one of Perez's colleagues that we get to know a little better and has a bigger part in this investigation. Her last Shetland book Wild Fire was published in September 2018. Ann has a long association with Shetland and confesses to being in love with the place.After an accident Perez is called to investigate and decide what is to be done with the person responsible. As the story continues questions arise as to wether or not it was an accident and then another person dies under tragic circumstances and Perez doubts that it's a coincidence and tries to find the pieces that fit to complete the puzzle and connect the two murders.

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Shetland is the most remote place in the UK. It's a part our country but completely unique. It might be British but it's closer to Norway than to Edinburgh and it feels very different from the mainland. Ann Cleeves, με τίτλο "Κόκκινα οστά", έφτασε στη χώρα μας, για μία α��όμη φορά με την υπογραφή των εκδόσεων Κλειδάριθμος. Ο Τζίμι Πέρεζ επιστρέφει για ν' αναλάβει άλλη μια μυστηριώδη υπόθεση, καταφέρνοντας και πάλι να μας παρασύρει στα ομιχλώδη τοπία του Σέτλαντ, αναζητώντας μαζί του τη λύση του γρίφου καλείται να λύσει. Και για μία ακόμη φορά, δεν μας απογοητεύει, προσφέροντάς μας μια ιστορία γοητευτική και τρομακτική, ένα αγωνιώδες θρίλερ, τα κομμάτια του παζλ του οποίου έρχονται να μπούνε με σταθερό ρυθμό στη θέση του, διατηρώντας με τον τρόπο αυτό αμείωτο το ενδιαφέρον μας καθ' όλη την διάρκεια της ανάγνωσής του. I would be complaining or criticizing on behalf of all these bait and switches, but instead I enjoyed the book for its individualist take on a crime story, as a s sneaky way to burrow under the skin of a very imperfect cop, and to experience a picturesque and way-too-human small community in the hinterlands of the world. Because I've worked with this production team before I knew they would be respectful of the original, and any changes will be to make a better film. Well, Evelyn, what do you look like?' Mima said. 'On your hands and knees like some sort of beast. In this light you could be one of Joseph's pigs, grubbing around in the soil there. You be careful or he'll be slitting your throat and eating you as bacon.' She laughed so loud that she coughed and spluttered.

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The biggest consideration when adapting a novel for TV is to get the essence of the story the writer wanted to get across even if you have to change certain parts of the plot. I created a new character - Tosh - to work with Perez, in the hope the warmth of their relationship would counter balance the darkness of the story. I had been to Shetland years before to research a story about the Braer disaster and could picture the places in the book very well. I had wanted to create a crime series set in the north of Scotland for many years so saw this as an opportunity to do that. Police procedural? Well, you would think so. The central (sort of) characters are a couple of cops. But it’s far more a character study of these two, especially one of them, and some of the other characters, than a procedural crime-solver.

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Blue Lightning Red Bones is the third book in the Shetland Island series of novels by British author Ann Cleeves. I think one of the things I most love about her work, is that I never have any idea as to who the 'bad guy' might be. We get to know the characters intimately, their hopes, dreams and desires, their disappointments and frustrations, their family history. We can picture the setting down to the last mound of dirt, surging wave. We can feel the atmosphere she creates seep into our bones. MY THOUGHTS: In her own beautiful style, Cleeves takes a handful of unrelated threads: an archeology dig, the birth of a baby, the discovery of a skull, family feuds, and weaves them into a tapestry of intrigue. She is a master at the slow boiler, the novel that doesn't really appear to have much action but simmers slowly until it boils over at the climax.

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Another suspicious death. The uncovering of a history where during the war a Norwegian resistance fighter disappeared mysteriously. How Sandy’s family was involved and how the dig started a tragic chain of events. Cleeves έχει χτίσει μια πολύ καλά δομημένη ιστορία, πλέκοντας στα δίχτυα αυτής ανθρώπους, συναισθήματα, αλλά και μυστικά που βρίσκονται κρυμμένα στις σκιές εδώ και πολλά χρόνια. Οι εμπλεκόμενοι στην υπόθεση αυτή, μυστηριώδεις και τρομακτικοί, κατά μία έννοια, σε κάνουν συνεχώς ν' αμφισβητείς τα κίνητρα και τις προθέσεις τους, αλλά και σε αποπροσανατολίζουν σε σχέση με το ποιος μπορεί να είναι ο ένοχος, καθώς και για το ποιοι μπορεί να είναι οι λόγοι που όπλισαν το χέρι του, οδηγώντας τον στην απόφαση να σκορπίσει το θάνατο. Ο ρυθμός της αφήγησης είναι έντονος και γρήγορος, χωρίς όμως να γίνεται ασφυκτικός, διατηρώντας σε εγρήγορση όλες σου τις αισθήσεις, αλλά και το ενδιαφέρον σου αμείωτο. The judging panel consisted of Geoff Bradley (non-voting Chair), Lyn Brown MP (a committee member on the London Libraries service), Frances Gray (an academic who writes about and teaches courses on modern crime fiction), Heather O'Donoghue (academic, linguist, crime fiction reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement, and keen reader of all crime fiction) and Barry Forshaw (reviewer and editor of Crime Time magazine).