The Shetland Sea Murders, Marsali Taylor
The Shetland Sea Murders, Marsali Taylor
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The Shetland Sea Murders
A gripping and chilling murder mystery

Author: Marsali Taylor

Narrator: Angela Ness

Unabridged: 10 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/29/2021

Synopsis

'This series is a must-read for anyone who loves the sea, or islands, or joyous, intricate story-telling.' ANN CLEEVES

Marsali Taylor returns with the ninth gripping mystery in her Shetland Sailing Mystery series.

While onboard her last chartered sailing trip of the season, Cass Lynch is awoken in the middle of the night by a Mayday call to the Shetland coastguard. A fishing vessel has become trapped on the rocks off the coast of one of the islands.

In the days that follow, there's both a shocking murder and a baffling death. On the surface there's no link, but when Cass becomes involved it is soon clear that her life is also in danger.

Convinced that someone sinister is at work in these Shetland waters, Cass is determined to find and stop them. But uncovering the truth could prove to be deadly . . .

Readers LOVE the Shetland Sailing Mysteries:

'Definitely the best of the Cass Lynch series yet!' 5* Reader Review

'The beautiful descriptions of Shetland life, traditions, it's landscape and even language bring everything to life.' 5* Reader Review

'This series gets better and better' 5* Reader Review

'A beautifully written story, with descriptions so vivid you can smell the sea and beautiful countryside.' 5* Reader Review

'The perfect lockdown read for anyone who longs to be back on the sea.' 5* Reader Review

(P) 2021 Headline Publishing Group Ltd

About Marsali Taylor

Marsali grew up near Edinburgh, Scotland. Her summer family holidays were spent in a remote cottage in the West Highlands, the region where her detective Gavin Macrae lives. Like her sailing heroine, Cass, she has always been used to boats, and used her 'gap year' earnings to buy her first sailing dinghy, Lady Blue. She studied English at Dundee University, did a year of teacher training and took up her first post, teaching English and French to secondary children in Aith, Shetland. Gradually her role expanded to doing drama too, and both primary and secondary pupils have won prizes performing her plays at the local Drama Festival. Some of these plays were in Shetlandic, the local dialect.Marsali teaches dinghy sailing at her local club, and is a keen single-handed sailor in her Offshore 8 m yacht, Karima S - the double of Cass's Khalida. A qualified STGA green badge tourist guide for Shetland, she now spends a good deal of her summer sharing her home with visitors from overseas. She is particularly interested in women's history, and has published Women's Suffrage in Shetland, two years' worth of original research. She followed this with The Story of Busta House, the romantic tale of the house which is the setting for part of Death on a Longship.Marsali also writes for the monthly magazine Shetland Life - a mixture of travel writing, interviews, investigative journalism and historical research.

Reviews

Goodreads review by 8stitches 9lives on July 28, 2021

The Shetland Sea Murders is the ninth instalment in the Shetland Sailing Murder Mysteries series set on the Shetland Islands, a subarctic archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland. Indomitable and determined 30-year-old sailor Cass Lynch has a weekend job as mate on board Shetland’s own tall shi......more

Goodreads review by Caron on August 07, 2021

An absorbing mystery... I've been aware of Marsali's books and planning to read them for some time now. So this was my first experience of this series, and I wasn't too sure what to expect. I was a bit worried to begin with because of the boating stuff. A lot of the story takes place or a boat, or has......more

Goodreads review by Dave on September 22, 2021

Ninth in the Cass Lynch series and the books have matured so they are less about a murder mystery - though that is still part of it - and more about another fascinating glimpse into Shetland life. And into the life of our heroine Cass Lynch, jobbing sailor, in particular. It starts with a mayday fr......more

Goodreads review by Michael on November 30, 2021

This crime novel was so slow to get going, it wasn't until about a third way through the book did anything really happen, yet the ending was so gripping. Taylor does give a sense of place and atmosphere to sailing in the Shetlands but it was at the expenditure of the plot which meandered like a ship......more

Goodreads review by Elaine on July 20, 2021

I would like to thank Netgalley and Headline for an advance copy of The Shetland Sea Murders, the ninth novel to feature sailor Cass Lynch. Cass is moonlighting on a tourist trip round the Shetland Isles when she hears a mayday call from a fishing vessel run aground on rocks. The call is still on her......more

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