num_pages: 330
description: A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Unst Shetland's most northerly island to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends to a Shetlander. But late on the night of the wedding party one of them Eleanor disappears - apparently into thin air. It's mid-summer a time of light nights and unexpected mists. The following day Eleanor's friend Polly receives an email. It reads like a suicide note saying she'll never be found alive. And then Eleanor's body is discovered lying in a small loch close to the cliff edge.Detectives Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves are dispatched to Unst to investigate. Before she went missing Eleanor claimed to have seen the ghost of a local child who drowned in the 1920s. Her interest in the legend of the ghost had seemed unhealthy - obsessive even - to her friends: an indication of a troubled mind. But Jimmy and Willow are convinced that there is more to Eleanor's death than there first appears.Is there a secret that lies behind the myth? One so shocking that someone would kill - many years later - to protect?
language: English
title: Thin Air
publisher: Macmillan