Jefferson County Library: Raven Black By Ann Cleeves

Arnold MO

14 January, 2022

11:10 AM

Description

Press release from the Jefferson County Library: Library Liss January 13, 2022   Raven Black by Ann Cleeves, 376 pages 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.   This press release was produced by the Jefferson County Library. The views expressed here are the author's own.