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Raven Black

Ann Cleeves

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Introducing Inspector Jimmy Perez. Raven Black is the first book in Ann Cleeves's Shetland series, adapted into a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall. A remote community with a killer in their midst . . . On New Year's Day, Shetland lies buried beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a vivid splash of colour on the white ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbour. As Fran opens her mouth to scream, the ravens continue their deadly dance . . . The body is found close to the home of a lonely outcast and local suspicion falls firmly on him. But when Inspector Jimmy Perez insists on broadening the search for suspects, a veil of distrust and fear is thrown over the entire community. As the case develops, Perez finds himself peering deeper into the past of the Shetland Islands than anyone wants to go.

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Publisher
Pan Macmillan
ISBN-13
9780330466578
Topics
Murder investigationIsolated communitySmall-town secretsSuspicion and distrustScottish islands setting

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