As the case develops Perez finds himself peering deeper into the past of the Shetland Islands than anyone wants to go.Īlso available in the Shetland series are White Nights, Red Bones, Blue Lightning, Dead Water and Thin Air. But when Inspector Jimmy Perez insists on broadening the search for suspects, a veil of distrust and fear is thrown over the entire community. The book, the first in a series known as the ‘Shetland Island’ series, has recently been adapted for television, in the series Shetland on BBC. The body is found close to the home of a lonely outcast and local suspicion falls firmly on him. Raven Blacktakes place in the modern day Shetland, and tells the story of the investigation of a murder of a local teenager. 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. As Fran opens her mouth to scream, the ravens continue their deadly dance. Raven Black is the first book in Ann Cleeves Shetland series - filmed as the major BBC1 drama starring Douglas Henshall, Shetland. Dramatised for radio by Iain Finlay MacLeod. Raven Black is set in Shetland, an archipelago off the coast of Scotland. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbour. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a vivid splash of colour on the white ground, ravens circling above.

On New Year's Day Shetland lies buried beneath a deep layer of snow. Raven Black is the first book in Ann Cleeves' bestselling Shetland series – a major BBC One drama, starring Douglas Henshall.Ī remote community with a killer in their midst. RAVEN BLACK is the first of a planned quartet of books set on the Island of Shetland, one of a large group of small islands to the North of Scotland of which.

Raven Black by Ann Cleeves