Raven Black: Book One of the Shetland Island Mysteries

Raven Black: Book One of the Shetland Island Mysteries
ISBN-10
1429964375
ISBN-13
9781429964371
Series
Raven Black
Category
Fiction
Pages
384
Language
English
Published
2008-06-24
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Author
Ann Cleeves

Description

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.

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