SMILEY BOOK REVIEW

Hi everyone

The Smiley book review is going to be me letting all you lovely people know what I think of the books I'm reading at the moment. 

I'm going to start with Ann Cleeves Shetland series. I first came across this series when I saw the BBC adaptation which I thought was great.  The TV adaptation deviates from the books a little but not enough to annoy me like some film adaptations. 

Dead Water is the 5th book in Ann Cleeves Shetland series. 

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 from the Hebrides to head up the investigation.
Since the death of his fiancée, Inspector Jimmy Perez has been out the loop, but his interest in this new case is stirred and he decides to help the inquiry - for Willow, his local knowledge is invaluable as the close-knit community holds many secrets. Markham - originally a Shetlander but who had made a name for himself in London - had left the islands years before to pursue his burgeoning writing career. In his wake, he left a scandal involving a young girl, Evie Watt, who is now engaged to a crofter. He had few friends there, so why was he back in Shetland?
Willow and Jimmy are soon led to Sullom Voe, the heart of Shetland's North Sea oil and gas industry. In a community where traditional values are held very dear by some, the advent of new energies, even renewables, is not always welcome. It emerges that Markham was chasing a story in his final days. One that must have been - for someone - significant enough to warrant his death..

Of course I love the who done it part of a crime novel, but what I also love about these books is that when I lie in bed and turn on my kindle (yep reading it on a kindle - but don't worry die hard paper book fans ... I still read real books too) I am transported right to The Shetland isles.  Walking by the sea with my wooly scarf, hat and gloves on taking pictures of the puffins - who doesn't love a puffin right.

Let me know if you have read any of Ann Cleeves Shetland books - what did you think of them?

Cheerio till next time