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.