Shetland - help!!!

I’ve started reading the books as Imwanted tomknow the back story of Perez and Fran. It’s quite interesting going from current TV and back tomwhen Cassie was a child. I wondered if Tosh s new boyfriend was a baddie, but surely Tosh would be more professional than to give away the ransom set up?

I think I must have dropped off early in the series, as I can’t work out why Zezi’s Mum is on Shetland? She is staying at the hotel there but why?
She has a Southern English accent so obviously didn’t live in the Shetlands ( or grow up there?)

She saw her son on the news and travelled to shetland lemongrove

There are probably people deep undercover within the crime ring and Perez's boss is sabotaging his "little" investigations to protect the bigger investigations IYKWIM.

She is hanging about the station a lot..

Jimmy Perez is (as I understand it) a Shetlander.

Jimmy is from fair Isle then moved south I think

Thanks notanan I definitely missed that bit.

notanan yes, she is hanging around a lot - I just thought it was beacause she didn't have a lot to do!
Is she Perez's boss or is she the Procurator Fiscal or is that the same thing? I'm not sure of the system in Scotland.

I assumed that Jimmy was a Shetlander from the BBC website - I got it wrong then.

Fairisle is one of the Shetland Islands though, it’s south of the main island.

But what's with the bodies in the sea? It gets worse!

Rhona is Procurator Fiscal and therefore Jimmy’s boss. In series four (I think) she was having a relationship with her boss, Phyllis Brennan, played by Anna Chancellor, who I think had some sort of cloud hanging over her at the end but I can’t remember what it was.

In Scotland the procurator fiscal is a lawyer who works for the Crown Office, Jimmy Perez works for Police Scotland, they are two different bodies.
At times they work together on joint protocols.
The police gather the evidence and report to the Fiscal, who then decides whether to prosocute or not.

I think that's the gist of it!

Gonegirl I might be wrong but I was presuming that the bodies were the next lot of people trafficked and the boat had hit trouble but I may be quite wrong (I usually am)

Yes. That's what I think Bluebell. Getting really bad now.

I thought that was how it worked Marydoll, but wasn't sure. Thank you.
Rather like our CPS

She doesn't seem very busy - the devil makes work for idle hands so they say.

Bluebelle I thought perhaps whoever was transporting the trafficked people on the boat panicked and threw them overboard.

Alice's husband went out so was he trafficking these poor souls?
Alice, in the meantime, has been designated to keep Jimmy occupied.

I assumed that Jimmy was a Shetlander from the BBC website - I got it wrong then.

He is but not from the main island. He would know his classmate cohort from secondary school but not necessarily the wider community on the main island.

He didnt settle on shetland until I think he moved back with fran from ??London?? But I think he did a stint in Glasgow at some point too as far as I know.

Fair Isle is not very accessible you wouldnt regularly pop over to lerwick. The fair isle secondary students boarded/lodged and weather dependant went back to fair Isle for the holidays. It cant as far as I know be accessed by big ferries etc its quite a rough plane landing too going by the book.

Fair Isle is a very different self contained community

Fair Isle is around 3 hours from Lerwick by ferry so not readily accessible even in good weather. Think there are only around 4/5 dozen residents.

Fair Isle is a very different self contained community

... and they knit lovely jumpers!

Gonegirl I might be wrong but I was presuming that the bodies were the next lot of people trafficked and the boat had hit trouble but I may be quite wrong (I usually am)

Im afraid my interpretation was a bit sadder :-(
Perez's plan to intercept the next landing and/or his ransom paying trap re Zezi spooked the trafficers because they were tipped off by the leak..
.... so they dumped the people they were planning to land into the sea. "Colateral damage" to escape capture themselves.

Jimmy, as a Fairislander, had to attend secondary school as a weekly boarder in Lerwick. He was in the police in Inverness until he returned to work in Shetland and it was there that he met Fran who had been married to Duncan, who is Cassie's father. There's a book of short stories - Offshore - which includes, among others, stories which feature Jimmy and details about his background.

notanan I think I said that too, we may find out soon!

Thank you annodomini - which makes it all rather strange that Jimmy did not know that much about Benson, even if not the same age.

I heard of girls from my secondary school who had gone on to greatness even if they were years older than me - two in showbusiness! and one younger who was even more lauded.

I don't know what to make of Zezi's mother, she is such a poor actress that I can't decide whether she is involved or just distraught.

I don't know if I'd agree that she's a poor actress. It's a difficult, contrary sort of role she's having to portray. We're always wondering about her. It's all a bit odd! Not a nice situation at all!

I think she is a very good actress and the fact that we feel uncertain of her is, I think, part of the role that she is portraying well.

What else has she been in. I've googled her and found Colby city but I can't remember her and feel she was in something else. I can't remember her name.

I think I have recently seen her in Midsommer Murders, but then sooner or later, every actor has a role in that!