Thin Air

In 'Thin Air', the sixth installment of Ann Cleeves' acclaimed Shetland series, Inspector Jimmy Perez finds himself embroiled in a chilling mystery that blurs the lines between folklore and brutal reality. A group of old university friends reunites on the remote Shetland Isles to celebrate a wedding, but the joyous occasion takes a sinister turn when one of them, Eleanor, vanishes without a trace during the wedding party. Before her disappearance, Eleanor had been deeply unsettled, claiming to have seen the ghost of a local child who drowned tragically in the 1920s. As Perez and Detective Willow Reeves delve into the baffling case, they must untangle a web of secrets, old resentments, and local legends. Is Eleanor's vanishing an elaborate hoax, a supernatural occurrence, or something far more sinister? The investigation uncovers buried truths and dark pacts, suggesting that a long-held secret might be so shocking that someone is willing to kill to protect it, even decades later. Perez must race against time to expose the human evil lurking beneath the surface of the island's tranquil beauty before more lives are lost.