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A review by bgg616
Wild Fire by Ann Cleeves
4.0
I love this series, and was glad to get back to one of the books. Shetland, as it is called by who live there, refers to the entire archipelago and includes 16 inhabited islands. The TV series is wonderful but the details about Jimmy Perez, the police inspector who works out of Lerwick on the main island, are quite different in the books. The personality is very much the same - taciturn, self contained, compassionate, lonely, and a very good police inspector. But the details of his personal life, his early life, his looks (blond on TV, dark good looks that go with the name Perez in the books) are quite different.
In this final installment of the Shetland series, which began as a quartet and became a series of eight, there is a suicide, a murder, and then a second murder in a tiny community in the northern part of the main island. Inspector Willow Reeves comes from the mainland to assist in the investigation after the first murder. She and Jimmy have connected before so we wonder through the novel what will become of their "relationship". Sandy Wilson is ever stalwart and has a girlfriend.
This was 4 to 4 1/2 stars to me. I resisted the temptation to rate it 5 stars because I love Shetland and I love the series. It was a good story, but it took its time to get there. Goodbye Jimmy. But I am happy to know that the TV series is continuing. In fact, as I write this, a new series is being filmed in Shetland : )
In this final installment of the Shetland series, which began as a quartet and became a series of eight, there is a suicide, a murder, and then a second murder in a tiny community in the northern part of the main island. Inspector Willow Reeves comes from the mainland to assist in the investigation after the first murder. She and Jimmy have connected before so we wonder through the novel what will become of their "relationship". Sandy Wilson is ever stalwart and has a girlfriend.
This was 4 to 4 1/2 stars to me. I resisted the temptation to rate it 5 stars because I love Shetland and I love the series. It was a good story, but it took its time to get there. Goodbye Jimmy. But I am happy to know that the TV series is continuing. In fact, as I write this, a new series is being filmed in Shetland : )