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.

mystery readers with this unforgettable series debut. It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies. Winner of Britains coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, Ann Cleevess Raven Black introduces a dazzling suspense series to U.S. 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. The basis for the hit series 'Shetland' now airing on PBS. Raven Black begins on New Year's Eve with a lonely outcast named Magnus Tait, who stays home waiting for visitors who never come. Winner of Britain's coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, Ann Cleeves introduces a dazzling new suspense series to 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. Raven Black is the first book in Ann Cleeves bestselling Shetland series now a major BBC One drama, starring Douglas. The basis for the hit series 'Shetland' now airing on PBS. 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. Trudging home, Fran Hunter’s eye is drawn to a splash of color on the frozen ground, ravens circling above. It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies beneath a deep layer of snow. 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. In the fourth book of Ann Cleeves’ critically acclaimed series set in the Shetland Islands, Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez brings his fiance home to Fair Isle, a birder’s paradise, where strangers are viewed with suspicions and distrust. Winner of Britains coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, Ann Cleevess Raven Black.

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. Raven Black The basis for the hit series Shetland now airing on PBS.

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