Shetland Fiction
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Haki The Shetland Pony Kathleen Fidler
There is no future for Adam at his parent's croft in the Shetlands, so he makes a deal with a circus owner that he can buy Haki, Adam's Shetland pony, on the condition that Adam is employed as her trainer.
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The Pirate Walter, Sir Scott
Long out of print, The Pirate's colourful cast of characters, atmospheric Orkney and Shetland settings, & shrewd investigation of Viking age values in the northern isles retain their power to entertain and challenge the modern reader.
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Raven Black Ann Cleeves
The murder of teenager Catherine Ross sends shockwaves through a small Shetland community, and most of the fingers of blame point to loner and simpleton Magnus Tait. But Catherine's vicious and sudden demise has thrown a veil of suspicion over everyone who knew her, and one local detective is keeping all options open.
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Sacrifice S. J. Bolton
Moving to Shetland has been unsettling enough for consultant surgeon Tora Hamilton - even before the gruesome discovery she makes one rain-drenched Sunday afternoon. Deep in the peat soil of her field she is shocked to find the perfectly preserved body of a young woman, a hole in her chest where her heart has been brutally removed.
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Shetland Black Laureen Johnson
It is a Saturday morning in April. The road leads to Whalvoe, a tiny place with only nine inhabitants. The stranger's death, and the events that follow, will involve and affect every one of them.
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Shetland Saga Sue Glover
A crew of Bulgarian sailors are stuck in Shetland because their country's economy has collapsed and the shipowners are bankrupt. Slowly, they integrate with the locals, amidst international skulduggery, local hostility and hopeless love.
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White Nights Ann Cleeves
Artist Bella Sinclair throws a party to launch an exhibition of her work & to introduce the paintings of Fran Hunter. The Herring House, the gallery where the exhibition is held, is on the beach at Biddista. When a mysterious Englishman bursts into tears & claims not to know who he is or where he's come from the evening ends in farce.
