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Crime writer’s grisly tales boost Shetland tourism
Apr 27 2008 by Pauline Holt, Sunday Sun
NORTH novelist Ann Cleeves has unveiled the sequel to the book that landed her the world’s top crime-writing prize.
And White Nights has attracted rave reviews.
In 2006 Ann’s novel, Raven Black, the first in a quartet based on Shetland, was awarded the £20,000 Duncan Lawrie Dagger. The sequel also features detective Jimmy Perez.
Ann, who lives in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside said: “The launch of an exhibition at The Herring House art gallery is disturbed by a stranger who bursts into tears, then claims not to remember who he is or where he comes from. The next day he’s found dead, wearing a clown’s mask.”
Her novels are boosting Shetland tourism, and Visit Shetland sponsored the London launch of White Nights. Ann said: “I’ve just heard that a businessman from Tromso took his wife on the first direct flight from Bergen to Sumburgh because she’d read Raven Black in Norwegian and wanted to see where the book was set”
:: White Nights is published by Pan Macmillan, £12.99
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