Hardcover, 375 pages
English language
Published Jan. 15, 2006 by MacMillan.
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.
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.
4 1/2 stars
Good writing, the characters were great, i really liked detective Perez, the descriptions of Shetland we amazing and really brought the place alive and the descriptions of knitting, knitwear and woodwork in general made my knitters heart proud. But the mystery was merely ok, not terribly earth shattering, but believable.
