num_pages: 384
description: Winner of Britain’s coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, Ann Cleeves introduces a dazzling new suspense series to 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.
language: English
title: Raven Black
titlecomplete: Raven Black (Shetland Island, #1)
characters: Catherine Ross, Sally Henry, Sandy Wilson, Roy Taylor, Robert Isbister, Catriona Bruce, Cassie Hunter, Euan Ross, Duncan Hunter, Jimmy Perez, Fran Hunter
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, British Literature, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Scotland, Audiobook
ratings_count: 46851
series: Shetland Island
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: CWA Gold Dagger
publisher: Minotaur Books