BOOKS: Shetland Trilogies, by Ann Cleeves

 Four suspenseful reads with a fine sense of place - the remote Shetland Islands, north of Scotland. First thing I had to get the atlas to imagine the comings and goings between islands.  Cleeves' murderers are driven by deep emotional conflicts, trapped by  past events.  It's not impossible to discern the culprit in these novels, but one can be wrong. The detective is an interestingly made character, born on Shetland, yet apart from them. 

Mystery readers shouldn't skip reading these.