Local police inspector, Jimmy Perez, leads the investigation into the death. The novel opens with the death of a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl named Catherine Ross, whose body was discovered in a field on New Year's Day by Fran Hunter, an English artist staying in Shetland. Raven Black is set in Shetland, an archipelago off the coast of Scotland. Raven Black is the first in the "Shetland" mysteries, a series of eight novels by Cleeves, composed of two quartets, all set in Shetland. The PBS series is based on the books but many of the events are different.Ĭleeves won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger award of the Crime Writer’s Association in 2006 for Raven Black.Raven Black is a 2006 novel by Ann Cleeves that won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award for the best crime novel of the year. If you watch the PBS’ series Shetland, you will be familiar with the characters.
In this novel, Cleeves introduces readers to the series’ detective, Jimmy Perez, who will play a prominent part in the later Shetland mysteries.
More and more strange juxtapositions occur as the mystery deepens. Robert who attended a party with Catherine at the Haa may have known her better than he lets on. Sally, as it turns out, has her heart set on Robert Ibitser, a well-known, affluent local. Sally, the deceased’s best friend is oddly ambivalent about her friend’s death. The town alternately mourns and revels in the notoriety of the tragedy. He even had the girl, Catherine, in for tea on the day she disappeared.
Tait’s home is close to where the body was found. Few of the residents of Lerwick speak to him they have long suspected he was daft and possibly dangerous. Magnus Tait is an eccentric recluse who lives by himself at Hilhead. At least, he gives the appearance of being the murderer. Unique among detective stories, readers know who the killer is near the start of the novel. Raven Black is the first in the Ann Cleeves’s Shetland series.
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