Thursday, July 10, 2014

Ann Cleeves: Peaceful Shetland is a Perfect Place for Murder

Ann Cleeves: Peaceful Shetland is a Perfect Place for Murder. 

Listen to NPR's  A visit to Shetland with Ann Cleeves. This is part of the NPR Crime in the City series.

http://www.npr.org/2014/07/08/329520153/for-one-crime-writer-peaceful-shetland-is-a-perfect-place-for-murder

Author Ann Cleeves has been visiting the Shetland Islands since the early 1970s. She has set five crime novels here, with a sixth on the way. "I like the idea of long, low horizons, with secrets hidden underneath," she says.

Ann Cleeves, who sets her mysteries in Shetland, once asked a pathologist friend what the perfect murder would be. "He reckoned pushing somebody over a cliff," she says. "Because how would you know whether they'd fallen or just been pushed?"


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