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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, a seasoned detective, enters an investigative maze that leads deeper into the past of the Shetland Islands than anyone wants to go. The story intertwines Magnus's present-day life with his childhood trauma and the unsolved murders of his younger self and a series of teenage girls, revealing shocking truths about the town and its residents.
First publish date: January 2006
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: Ann Cleeves
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