Last we saw DI Jimmy Perez in print, he was leaving Fair Isle for Orkney in Ann Cleeves’ novel, Wild Fire, the last of the Shetland books. But it turns out, Cleeves wasn’t finished with Perez just yet. Nearly twenty years ago, Cleeves introduced Perez in Raven Black (2006), her first Shetland novel. He would…
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The Word Drop – Croft
If you’ve watched even a single episode of Shetland, you’ve probably heard the word croft — and maybe pictured a little stone cottage perched against a backdrop of sea and sky. You wouldn’t be far off. A croft is a small agricultural holding—usually a modest house on a patch of land—found mainly in the Scottish…