Reluctant Adult

Do you overthink everything?
Do you struggle to say no to people?
Are you paying membership for a gym you never go to?
Do group chat politics make you want to throw your phone under a bus?
Are you overjoyed when people cancel plans so that you can sit at home in your pyjama bottoms eating Coco pops for dinner?

If so then this book is for you!

The Clockmaker's Daughter

Typ alla böcker jag läser får betyget jättebra, men den här var bara bra. Storyn var på många sätt fantastisk och hängde ihop på många spännande sätt, men den blev också lite rörig. Det var på sätt och vis för många historier i en bok och det gjorde att den både kunde kännas långrandig samtidigt som man inte fick veta tillräckligt mycket om varje del. Så på sätt och vis var den för lång och ändå slutade den för fort. Ni vet sådär när man kan förstå hur viktiga delar i historien kommer att fortsätta, men det lämnas osagt. Det gjorde att när boken tog slut kände jag mest irritation.

In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe's life is in ruins.
Over one hundred and fifty years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items: a sepia photograph of an arresting-looking woman in Victorian clothing, and an artist's sketchbook containing the drawing of a twin-gabled house on the bend of a river.
Why does Birchwood Manor feel so familiar to Elodie? And who is the beautiful woman in the photograph? Will she ever give up her secrets?

Dead Water

When the body of journalist Jerry Markham is found in a traditional Shetland boat, outside the house of the Fiscal, down at the Marina, young Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted in to head up the investigation.

Since the death of his fiancée, Inspector Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop, but his interest in this new case is stirred and he decides to help the inquiry. Markham originally a Shetlander but who had made a name for himself in London had left the islands years before. In his wake, he left a scandal involving a young girl, Evie Watt, who is now engaged to a seaman. He had few friends in Shetland, so why was he back?

Willow and Jimmy are led to Sullum Voe, the heart of Shetland s North Sea oil and gas industry. It soon emerges from their investigation that Markham was chasing a story in his final days. One that must have been significant enough to warrant his death . . .

Blue lightning

Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to Fair Isle to introduce his fiancée, Fran, to his parents. It's a community where everyone knows each other, and strangers, while welcomed, are still viewed with a degree of mistrust.
Challenging to live on at the best of times, with the autumn storms raging, the island feels cut off from the rest of the world. Trapped, tension is high and tempers become frayed.
Enough to drive someone to murder...
When a woman's body is discovered at the renowned Fair Isle bird observatory, with feathers threaded through her hair, the islanders react with fear and anger. With no support from the mainland and only Fran to help him, Jimmy has to investigate the old-fashioned way. He soon realises that this is no crime of passion - but a murder of cold and calculated intention.
With no way off the island until the storms abate, Jimmy knows he has to work quickly. There's a killer on the island just waiting for the opportunity to strike again.

When the music is over

Banks: 23
When the body of a young girl is found in a remote countryside lane, evidence suggests she was drugged, abused and thrown from a moving van – before being beaten to death.

While DI Annie Cabbot investigates the circumstances in which a 14-year-old could possibly fall victim to such a crime, newly promoted Detective Superintendent Alan Banks must do the same – but the crime Banks is investigating is the coldest of cases. Fifty years ago Linda Palmer was attacked by celebrity entertainer Danny Caxton, yet no investigation ever took place. Now Caxton stands accused at the centre of a historical abuse investigation and it’s Banks’s first task as superintendent to find out the truth.

As more women step forward with accounts of Caxton’s manipulation, Banks must piece together decades-old evidence. With his investigation uncovering things from the past that would rather stay hidden, he will be led down a path even darker than the one he set out to investigate…

Abattoir Blues

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When two boys vanish under mysterious circumstances, the local community is filled with unease. Then a bloodstain is discovered in a disused World War Two hangar nearby, and a caravan belonging to one of the youths is burned to the ground. Things quickly become much more sinister. Assigned to the case, DCI Banks and his team are baffled by the mystery laid out before them. But when a motor accident throws up a gruesome discovery, the investigation spins into a higher gear - in another direction. As Banks and his team struggle desperately to find the missing boy who holds the key to the puzzle, they find themselves in a race against time where it's their turn to become the prey ...

Red Bones

An island shrouded in mist and a community with secrets buried in the past . . .

When a young archaeologist studying on a site at Whalsay discovers a set of human remains, the island settlers are intrigued. Is it an ancient find - or a more contemporary mystery?

Then an elderly woman is shot in a tragic accident in the middle of the night. Shetland detective Jimmy Perez is called in by her grandson - his own colleague, Sandy Wilson.

The sparse landscape and the emptiness of the sea have bred a fierce and secretive people. Mima Wilson was a recluse. She had her land, her pride and her family. As Jimmy looks to the islanders for answers, he finds instead two feuding families whose envy, greed and bitterness have lasted generations.

Surrounded by people he doesn't know and in unfamiliar territory, Jimmy finds himself out of his depth. Then there's another death and, as the spring weather shrouds the island in claustrophobic mists, Jimmy must dig up old secrets to stop a new killer from striking again . .

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely fine

Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.

But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the IT guy from her office...

Sen fick jag stryka resten av texten för det stämde inte. Eleanor får för sig att en musiker hon ser uppträda är den rätta för henne och börjar förändra sig för att kunna passa honom, samtidigt träffar hon ovan nämnda Raymond och en äldre herre, Sammy, som de räddar när han blivit sjuk på gatan. Hela hennes liv förändras.

White nights

It’s midsummer in the Shetland Islands, the time of the white nights, when birds sing at midnight and the sun never sets. Artist Bella Sinclair throws an elaborate party to launch an exhibition of her work at The Herring House, a gallery on the beach.

The party ends in farce when one the guests, a mysterious Englishman, bursts into tears and claims not to know who he is or where he’s come from. The following day the Englishman is found hanging from a rafter, and Detective Jimmy Perez is convinced that the man has been murdered. He is reinforced in this belief when Roddy, Bella’s musician nephew, is murdered, too.

But the detective’s relationship with Fran Hunter may have clouded his judgment, for this is a crazy time of the year when night blurs into day and nothing is quite as it seems.

Pride and Prejudice

Den här över 200 år gamla boken behöver ingen närmare presentation. Första versionen skrevs 1797. Den publicerades 1813.
BBC´s serie från 1995 följer boken väldigt väl, märkte jag, men en del saker blev lite tydligare i boken.

Boken jag läste hade inte det här omslaget, men jag valde det jag tyckte var snyggast!

Svart som natten

Det är en kall januarimorgon och staden Lerwick på Shetlandsöarna ligger under ett djupt täcke av snö. Korparna seglar framöver den ensamståendemamman Fran Hunter som just har lämnat sin dotter i skolan och är på väg hemåt när hennes blick plötsligt dras till den frusna marken och ett konstigt bylte som ligger i snön. Det visar sig vara en ung kvinna, strypt med sin egen halsduk. Fran känner genast igen henne som grannflickan Catherine Ross.
Shetlandspolisen kallar genast på förstärkning från Skottland. Bland invånarna sprids nyheten om mordet blixtsnabbt och rykten om att stadens ensling Magnus Tait är inblandad i mordet börjar florera. När kommissarie Jimmy Perez ignorerar ryktena och istället börjar kartlägga vad som egentligen hänt sprider sig misstankarna vidare och lägger sig som en skugga över den lilla staden. Grannarna kastar illvilliga blickar på varandra och för första gången låser man sin ytterdörr. Alla känner alla - men en av dem är en mördare. Vem?

Jag hade den här boken hemma på svenska. Därav att jag inte har läst den på engelska. Språket kändes ganska gammaldags, så det ska bli spännande att läsa nästa bok på engelska och se vad det ger för känsla. Jag har sett TV-serien innan och det var en hel del som skilde sig från den.

Adventures of a Young Naturalist

In 1954, a young television presenter was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to travel the world finding rare and elusive animals for London Zoo's collection, and to film the expeditions for the BBC. His name was David Attenborough, and the programme, Zoo Quest, not only heralded the start of a remarkable career in broadcasting, but changed the way we viewed the natural world forever. 

Boken är både intressant och bra skriven.