Raven Black is Ann Cleeves' debut novel and first installment of the Shetland Island Mystery series. DI Jimmy Perez must solve the murder of a young woman in a small, isolated community in the northernmost part of the UK. Perez must battle small-town small mindedness in his dogged pursuit of the truth. The deeper Perez digs into the investigation, the more community ghosts he unearths.
The mystery is knitted together neatly like a familiar Fair Isle sweater. The pacing is consistent, the ending is satisfying and masterfully seeded, and the characters are ordinary , flawed people. The stylized speech is mostly slang and local colloquialisms instead of written phonetically, which is a score for readability.
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