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.
Key facts about Raven Black
Ann Cleeves wrote Raven Black, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2006. The book has 380 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780312359669 to find the main one.
Raven Black is book 1 of 10 in the Shetland series. The series has 10 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. The Killing Stones is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 7 October 2025.
Additionally, Ann Cleeves writes George and Molly Palmer-Jones, Inspector Ramsay and Vera Stanhope, plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our cozy mystery, police procedural and mystery shelves. Meanwhile, The Killing Stones is the latest published Ann Cleeves book on file, from 7 October 2025.
About Ann Cleeves
Ann Cleeves is an English crime writer whose atmospheric, character-driven procedurals are rooted in remote, weather-beaten landscapes she has often lived in herself. Early jobs cooking at a Fair Isle bird observatory and, later, years spent on the tidal, no-electricity Hilbre Island fed directly into her fiction. See every Ann Cleeves book in order.
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