I'D PRESUMED I WAS DONE WITH SHETLAND...BUT NOW I'M BACK!

SHE ADDS it is also 50 years since she first went to Orkney, to stay with a friend she met while working on Fair Isle.

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So she relished spending time there researching her latest novel, which is the start of a new series.

Ann says: “That was in midwinter, at the end of 2023, and it was clear and frosty, and absolutely beautiful.

“There is no other reason for bringing Jimmy Perez back now other than I wanted to go north again, and in the last Shetland book, Wild Fire, he had moved with Willow to Orkney, so I thought it would be quite fun to see them together as a family, because we have not done that, and see him with her as his boss really. It grew out of that.”