![]() Emily Melton - Copyright © American Library Association. Cleeves offers up a dark, brutal, suspenseful page-turner that will keep even seasoned mystery buffs guessing right up to the end. As he investigates, he uncovers a web of sinister secrets, strange superstitions, petty rivalries, thwarted love, and illicit affairs-the dark underbelly of Shetland's tight-knit community. Policeman Jimmy Perez, assigned to the case, isn't convinced of Magnus' guilt. ![]() Suspicion immediately falls on recluse Magnus Tait, who was accused-but never convicted-of kidnapping another girl eight years earlier. But on closer inspection, she finds that the "perfect picture" is the dead body of local teenager Catherine Ross, whose red scarf has been used to strangle her. When the body of a murdered girl is discovered, suspicion falls on Magnus, and Inspector Jimmy Perez enters an investigative maze that leads deeper into the past of the Shetland Islands than anyone wants to go. What a perfect picture it makes, she thinks. Winner of the coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, Raven Black begins on New Year’s Eve with lonely outcast Magnus Tait. On the remote island of Shetland, teacher Fran Hunter is walking home when she spots a splash of red in the deep, white snowdrifts, with black ravens flying above. Raven Black was adapted into a 2-part TV show that was part of the second series of the of the Scottish television crime drama Shetland. ![]() White Nights Raven Black is the first book in the Shetland Island series of novels by British author Ann Cleeves. ![]()
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