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A review by lgpiper
Blue Lightning by Ann Cleeves
4.0
This is another of the Shetland series by Ann Cleeves. Jimmy Perez takes his fiancée, Fran Hunter, to Fair Isle to visit his parents, Big James and Mary. While they're there, Angela Moore, the Warden of the Fair Isle Field Center, is found to have been murdered. As the only police presence available, Jimmy is made to begin the investigation.
It seems that the Fair Isle Field Center is housed in an old, out of service, light house. They do bird tracking. That is, they trap, catalog, and band birds. It's also a popular spot for avid bird watchers to visit. So, within the confines of the Field Center is a small band of bird watchers, Angela's husband, Maurice, Maurice's "difficult" teenage daughter (by a previous marriage), Poppy, and the Field Center cook, Jane Latimer.
It turns out that bird watchers can be a pretty competitive bunch, fighting each other to be first to take credit for a rare sight. Then too, Angela appears to be rather a piece of work, bossy and profligate.
The first suspect is Poppy, who clearly has "issues" with her step mother. But after a bit of poking around, it seems Poppy is off the hook. So, the painstaking process of investigating and verifying the whereabouts of the other members of the birding community begins. Somewhere along the way, the cook is also murdered.
Eventually, of course, Jimmy figures things out and the guilty party (or -ies?) is caught.
It seems that the Fair Isle Field Center is housed in an old, out of service, light house. They do bird tracking. That is, they trap, catalog, and band birds. It's also a popular spot for avid bird watchers to visit. So, within the confines of the Field Center is a small band of bird watchers, Angela's husband, Maurice, Maurice's "difficult" teenage daughter (by a previous marriage), Poppy, and the Field Center cook, Jane Latimer.
It turns out that bird watchers can be a pretty competitive bunch, fighting each other to be first to take credit for a rare sight. Then too, Angela appears to be rather a piece of work, bossy and profligate.
The first suspect is Poppy, who clearly has "issues" with her step mother. But after a bit of poking around, it seems Poppy is off the hook. So, the painstaking process of investigating and verifying the whereabouts of the other members of the birding community begins. Somewhere along the way, the cook is also murdered.
Eventually, of course, Jimmy figures things out and the guilty party (or -ies?) is caught.