Raven Black
Winner of Britain’s coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, Ann Cleeves introduces a dazzling new suspense series to U.S. mystery readers.Raven Black begins on New Year’s Eve with a lonely outcast named Magnus Tait, who stays home waiting for visitors who never come. But the next morning the body of...
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Winner of Britain’s coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, Ann Cleeves introduces a dazzling new suspense series to U.S. mystery readers.Raven Black begins on New Year’s Eve with a lonely outcast named Magnus Tait, who stays home waiting for visitors who never come. But 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312359676 (0312359675)
ASIN: 312359675
Publish date: June 24th 2008
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Series: Shetland (#1)
When it was first published, ten years ago, "Raven Black" was an award-winning book that was seen as breaking new ground in crime fiction by virtue of evoking the atmosphere of the (almost crime-free) Shetlands and creating a more-than-typically reflective, low key but passionate, main character in...
raven-blackWhen it was first published, ten years ago, "Raven Black" was an award-winning book that was seen as breaking new ground in crime fiction by virtue of evoking the atmosphere of the (almost crime-free) Shetlands and creating a more-than-typically reflective, low key but passionate, main c...
raven-blackWhen it was first published, ten years ago, "Raven Black" was an award-winning book that was seen as breaking new ground in crime fiction by virtue of evoking the atmosphere of the (almost crime-free) Shetlands and creating a more-than-typically reflective, low key but passionate, main c...
bookshelves: winter20092010, britain-scotland, published-2006, play-dramatisation, mystery-thriller, fraudio Read from January 23 to 24, 2010 Dramatisation by Iain Finlay MacLeod of the crime novel by Anne Cleeves, set in Shetland during midwinter. Detective Jimmy Perez, a native of Fair Isle, ...
Did not like the mystery whatsoever. Wanted to put it down but I was interested in where the author was taking me. Unfortunately, it was somewhere I didn't want to go. Final verdict: Not sure I'll pick up the next one in the series (update: though I haven't picked up another one in this series, I ...
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