This series is the basis for the hit BC show Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall, which attracted over 12 million viewers in its first two nights on the air. mystery readers with this unforgettable series debut. For the first time in years, Catherine's neighbors nervously lock their doors, while a killer lives on in their midst.Īnn Cleeves is sure to dazzle U.S. 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.

The locals on the quiet island stubbornly focus their gaze on one man-loner and simpleton Magnus Tait. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbor, Catherine Ross. Long a celebrated crime writer in Britain, Ann Cleeves fame went international when she won the coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger for this amazing suspense novel, Raven Black. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a splash of color on the frozen ground, ravens circling above. Magnus Tait is an eccentric recluse who lives by himself at Hilhead.

At least, he gives the appearance of being the murderer. Unique among detective stories, readers know who the killer is near the start of the novel. It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies beneath a deep layer of snow. Raven Black is the first in the Ann Cleeves’s Shetland series. Raven Black was adapted into a 2-part TV show that was. With Sandys help, he begins to unravel a knot of tall tales and family betrayals that stretches back to a WWII resistance movement known as the Shetland Bus. Like Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse or Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks, Cleeves' new detective, Inspector Jimmy Perez, is a very private and perceptive man whose bailiwick is a remote hamlet in the Shetland Islands. Raven Black is the first book in the Shetland Island series of novels by British author Ann Cleeves. Long a celebrated crime writer in Britain, Ann Cleeves' fame went international when she won the coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger for this amazing suspense novel, Raven Black. From the Back Cover Outstanding Praise for Raven Black A fine and sinister psychological novel in the Barbara Vine style. This Description may be from another edition of this product.

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