Shetland · Book 1
Raven Black
- Published
- 1 January 2006
- Pages
- 380
- ISBN-13
- 9780312359669
- Type
- novel
About this book
Raven Black (2006) opens Ann Cleeves's Shetland series, introducing Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez to the windswept archipelago's tightly knit island community. The first entry in the Four Seasons quartet, it establishes the series' hallmark focus on landscape and light as much as plot, running 380 pages ahead of White Nights two years later.
Its place in Shetland
Raven Black is book 1 in the Shetland series. It is followed by White Nights. See the full Shetland reading order.
Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez works Scotland's remotest posting: the Shetland Islands, a windswept archipelago closer to Norway than to Edinburgh, where everyone knows everyone and a murder tears at the fabric of a community too small to absorb one. Ann Cleeves, who also writes the Vera Stanhope novels, builds the series as much around landscape and light as around plot — the eternal simmer dim of midsummer, the total darkness of winter, the birdwatchers and knitters and fishermen who make up island life — and…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781429964371
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781427277312
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781447208747