Raven Black: Book One of the Shetland Island Quartet (Shetland Island Mysteries)

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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. Like Colin Dexters Inspector Morse or Peter Robinsons 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. It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home Fran Hunters 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 Catherines neighbors nervously lock their doors while a killer lives on in their midst. Ann Cleeves is sure to dazzle U.S. mystery readers with this unforgettable series debut. This series is the basis for the hit BBC show Shetland starring Douglas Henshall which attracted over 12 million viewers in its first two nights on the air.