Cold Earth Av Ann Cleeves

<p><b>A body is found in the wreckage of a destroyed home. Consumed by the investigation, Inspector Jimmy Perez struggles for the truth in <i>Cold Earth</i>, the seventh Shetland mystery from Ann Cleeves.<br><br>Now a major BBC One drama, <i>Shetland</i>, starring Douglas Henshall.</b><br><br>In the black days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main road and sweeps down to the sea.<br><br>At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Inspector Jimmy Perez watches the flood of peaty water and mud smash through a croft house in its path. Everyone thinks the croft is uninhabited, but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress. Perez becomes obsessed with finding out her identity and what she was doing there. <br><br>Then it emerges that she was already dead when the landslide hit the house and, suddenly, Perez finds himsel