By the time I got to chapter 4 I found it very difficult to stop listening. I stuck with it, and very soon was completely immersed in the characters and the story. The first 30 minutes or so seemed a little "talky" and slow. However, by the end of the second episode I was "hooked". At first I wasn't sure if I liked them or not. Last year the local PBS affiliate broadcast several episodes based on this series. This series is the basis for the hit BBC show Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall, which attracted over 12 million viewers in its first two nights on the air.
For the first time in years, Catherine's neighbors nervously lock their doors while a killer lives on in their midst.Īnn Cleeves is sure to dazzle US mystery listeners with this unforgettable series debut. But when detective Jimmy Perez and his colleagues from the mainland insist on opening out the investigation, a veil of suspicion and fear is thrown over the entire community. The locals on the quiet island stubbornly focus their gaze on one man - loner and simpleton Magnus Tait. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbor, Catherine Ross. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a splash of color on the frozen ground, ravens circling above. It is a cold January morning, and Shetland lies beneath a deep layer of snow. Like Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse or Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks, Cleeves' new detective, Inspector Jimmy Perez, is a very private and perceptive man whose bailiwick is a remote hamlet in the Shetland Islands.
Long a celebrated crime writer in Britain, Ann Cleeves' fame went international when she won the coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger for this amazing suspense novel, Raven Black.
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