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.
Ann Cleeves’ Raven Black is absolute sheer brilliance contained in 376 pages of absorbing suspenseful entertainment. Readers will be riveted from the gripping start to the pulse-pounding end. Cleeves’ literary masterpiece was penned with the precision of a skilled surgeon’s scalpel. Thriller fans will be left breathless, perplexed & mesmerized throughout.
Raven Black is Cleeves’ nineteenth novel and the first in a quartet of books set in the Sheltland Isles. Raven Black infuses a flawless blend of old-fashioned whodunit with a psychological element not captured as adeptly as Cleeves’ delivers effortlessly.
Cleeves sublimely demonstrates life in a remote island community with subtle nuances, an intricate plot that propels the story exquisitely along and striking characters that crackle like a blazing fire.
Cleeves’ writing is alluring and her entrancing narrative is as smooth as glass. She splendidly weaves a bewitching layer of complexities that would crumble if attempted by someone not fated to tell this exhilarating tale. With each suspenseful page turned, it became apparent Cleeves was destined to share the evocative beauty of the Shetland Isles with mystery fans – or readers who crave literary masterpieces.
As for the ending – spine-tingling chills and the stunning reveal spotlighted just how much of a creative visionary Cleeves’ truly is.
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