The investigators are interested in him but can find no physical evidence linking him to the crime and Perez follows the evidence. Now they have jumped to the conclusion that he is responsible for this death also. The neighbors were sure that Magnus Tait was responsible.

Several years earlier, a young girl went missing in Ravenswick and she was never found. The community is sure that they know who killed the girl. But he establishes a good working relationship with the head of the new team and they begin working well together to try to solve the crime. Soon, a high-powered team of detectives from Inverness is sent in to head up the investigation and Perez is relegated to a relatively minor role. He went to school at Ravenswick and Lerwick on the main island, so he is very familiar with the area. It was there that Perez was born and raised. His name comes from a Spaniard who had been shipwrecked on Fair Isle and subsequently made it his home. Perez is another strong and realistic detective creation of Cleeves. The police come to investigate, led by Inspector Jimmy Perez. The body is quite near Magnus Tait's home. She goes to investigate and discovers Catherine Ross's strangled body which the ravens have already been feeding on. When they both start to leave the bus, Catherine offers him her hand to help him down and he invites her in for a cup of tea.Ī deep layer of snow covers Ravenswick but the next morning a local artist on her way home sees some bright colors in the distance on the snow and ravens circling around the area.

A few days later when he's riding a bus, Catherine gets on. The girls then leave but they, especially Catherine, have left a vivid impression on Magnus. When the girls turn up at his door, he invites them in to toast the New Year. Raven Black takes place in the fictional town of Ravenswick, Shetland, where on New Year's Eve a simpleton loner named Magnus Tait is visited by two teenage girls, Sally Henry and Catherine Ross. So I decided to remedy that starting with the first book in the series. I had seen the 'Shetland' series on television but had never read any of the books, even though I am a big fan of Ann Cleeves' writing.

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