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Raven Black (Shetland, #1)

Ann Cleeves

Start date: April 15, 2025

Finish date: May 7, 2025

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Why we're reading this: First book in an acclaimed series
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Aug 24, 2020 Julie Durnell rated it really liked it

Shelves: england-uk, mystery

I really had a hard time putting this down even though in my opinion I would not consider it a thriller. It's been quite some time since reading the second book (although for the life of me I can't recall why I would have read the second before the first in a series!) and I believe I enjoyed this one much more than White Nights. My husband and I have recently watched all of the Shetland series and I think that enhanced my enjoyment of Raven Black. In spite of the difference between the book and ...more

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Nov 09, 2019 Nanosynergy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mysteries-thrillers-espionage, series, fiction-2000-2019, british, fiction, 2019read

First book in the Ann Cleeves Shetland Island series. Winner of the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) of the UK 'Duncan Lawrie Dagger' award for the 2006 best crime novel of the year. Love the setting of the Shetland Islands and the local culture/weather/geography that infuses the story. Makes me want to go visit on a future vacation. As a first book in a new series, it has a LOT of set up, which means slow-going in sections. While the book cover states the story is a 'thriller,' the pacing did n ...more

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