Raven Black
Outstanding Praise for Raven Black "A fine and sinister psychological novel in the Barbara Vine style. Cleeves is part of a new generation of superior British writers."-The Globe and Mail (Canada)"A riveting read."-Val McDermid, author of A Place of Execution"Beautifully constructed ....
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Outstanding Praise for Raven Black "A fine and sinister psychological novel in the Barbara Vine style. Cleeves is part of a new generation of superior British writers."-The Globe and Mail (Canada)"A riveting read."-Val McDermid, author of A Place of Execution"Beautifully constructed . . . brings alive the tensions in a place where everyone knows everyone else and nothing can be forgotten. Raven Black is lively and surprising."-Times Literary Supplement (UK)"Ann's characterization is worthy of the best writers in the field. . . . Rarely has the sense of place been so evocatively conveyed in a crime novel."-Daily Express (UK)"With a cast of well-drawn and convincing characters and an unexpected conclusion, Raven Black is the perfect novel to while away the long winter evenings by the fire."-The Tribune (UK)"Raven Black shows what a fine writer [Cleeves] is . . . accomplished and thoughtful."-The Sunday Telegraph (UK)"Cleeves is a very good writer-strong on atmosphere, plot and people."-The Times (UK)
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781429964371 (1429964375)
ASIN: B00413QAAQ
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 ...