Ann Cleeves: Raven Black (2008, Thomas Dunne Books)
375 pages
English language
Published Nov. 22, 2008 by Thomas Dunne Books.
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.
Not great literature, but a pleasant enough distraction. The plot was fine, but the story was told in prose that I found sometimes awkward, ungainly and immature.
