Raven Black a Shetland mystery
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 lead...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st St. Martin's Minotaur pbk. ed. |
| Series: | Cleeves, Ann. Shetland series ;
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 375 p. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780312359676 (pbk.) : 0312359675 (pbk.) |
| Author Notes: | Ann Cleeves was born in 1954 in England. She studied English at Sussex University. She then became a British crime-writer. In 2006 she won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger which is the richest crime-writing prize in the world, for her novel Raven Black. She also writes The Vera Stanhope novels which have been transformed into the TV detective series 'Vera'. Her Jimmy Perez novels are dramatozed as the TV series 'Shetland'. (Bowker Author Biography) |
