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Reviews "A riveting read." ---Val McDermid "Chilling...enough to freeze the blood." ---Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review "Cleeves's taut, atmospheric thriller will keep readers guessing until the last page.... Chilling." --- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Deserves the top crime writer's prize in the United States this year. Don't miss this standout." --- Rocky Mountain News, A riveting read." ---Val McDermid Chilling...enough to freeze the blood." ---Marilyn Stasio,The New York Times Book Review Cleeves's taut, atmospheric thriller will keep readers guessing until the last page.... Chilling." ---Publishers Weekly(starred review)Deserves the top crime writer's prize in the United States this year. Don't miss this standout." ---Rocky Mountain News, "A riveting read." --Val McDermid "Chilling...enough to freeze the blood." -- Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review "Chilling...enough to freeze the blood." -- Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review "Deserves the top crime writer's prize in the United States this year. Don't miss this standout." -- Rocky Mountain News, "A riveting read." ---Val McDermid "Chilling...enough to freeze the blood." ---Marilyn Stasio,The New York Times Book Review "Cleeves's taut, atmospheric thriller will keep readers guessing until the last page.... Chilling." ---Publishers Weekly(starred review) "Deserves the top crime writer's prize in the United States this year. Don't miss this standout." ---Rocky Mountain News, "A riveting read." ---Val McDermid "Chilling...enough to freeze the blood." ---Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review "Cleeves's taut, atmospheric thriller will keep readers guessing until the last page.... Chilling." --- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Deserves the top crime writer's prize in the United States this year. Don't miss this standout." --- Rocky Mountain News
Series Volume Number1
SynopsisThe basis for the hit series "Shetland" now airing on PBS. Winner of Britain's coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, Ann Cleeves's Raven Black introduces a dazzling suspense series to U.S. mystery readers. It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's 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, Catherine's neighbors nervously lock their doors, while a killer lives on in their midst., The basis for the hit series "Shetland" now airing on PBS. 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.