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Raven Black
A Mystery Novel by Ann Cleeves
Book 1 of the Shetland Series
Subgenres:
- Scandinavian Noir,
- Small Town Secrets
This book is for you if you're into...
- Icy Shetland Island mysteries where the landscape is a character
- Small communities unraveling under suspicion after a shocking crime
From Little Stack
Have you ever read a thriller set in Scotland’s Shetland Islands? No? Now is the perfect time to do so…
Winner of the 2007 Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, Raven Black brings equal helpings of suspense, mystery, and thrills.
It’s New Year’s Eve, and the lonely outcast Magnus Tait, stays home while others celebrate, waiting for visitors who never come. The next morning, the body of a murdered teenage girl is discovered nearby, and suspicion falls on Magnus. Inspector Jimmy Perez enters an investigative maze that leads deeper into the past of the Shetland Islands than anyone wants to go.
Taking the crime thriller into the remote, storm-ridden and secretive Shetland Islands is a genius move and, if you enjoy Raven Black, there are eight books in the Shetland series already released, with more to come.
The basis for the hit series "Shetland" now airing on PBS.
It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a splash of color on the frozen ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbor, Catherine Ross.
The locals on the quiet island stubbornly focus their gaze on one man—loner and simpleton Magnus Tait. But when detective Jimmy Perez and his colleagues from the mainland insist on opening out the investigation, a veil of suspicion and fear is thrown over the entire community.
For the first time in years, Catherine's neighbors nervously lock their doors, while a killer lives on in their midst.
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