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The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez) by Ann Cleeves (view source)
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I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. Willow's also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.
There's a further complication: Archie and Jimmy were close friends and distant relatives. Jimmy knows that Archie wasn't perfect - his womanising was legendary - but he's grieving whilst trying to investigate. Perhaps it should be otherwise, but the team from Glasgow seem reluctant to try to get to Orkney and possibly be stranded there over Christmas. It's down to Perez and Reeves - and one of the main problems will be sorting fact from local myth and legend.