To read about the festival, make travel arrangements to visit and get involved, click HERE. There are preparations for Up Helly Aa, something I had to look up because I had no idea what it is. We don’t meet Robert’s father but you can tell how important and prestigious it is that Robert is involved in his father’s business and the festival. Robert’s father is a big figure with the upcoming festival Up Helly Aa. There is Robert, a tall handsome student who Sally is interested in. It’s very difficult to attend school when your parent is a teacher. Sally Henry is a teenager, Catherine’s friend and the daughter of a school teacher. Fran is the one to discover Catherine’s body. Fran Hunter and her ex-husband Duncan who have a young daughter named Cassie. Each chapter gives us a different point of view. In addition to Jimmy Perez we have multiple perspectives. But did he do it? This girl’s disappearance is introduced early in the novel to establish the mistrust of old Magnus as well as give the reader one of many suspects to consider for Catherine’s murder. No body was found and he couldn’t be charged. But is he capable of murder?Ī young girl named Catriona had disappeared some 10 years earlier and Magnus was their prime suspect. Magnus is clearly a mentally deficient person although capable enough to live on his own. She was strangled and left in a snowy field near Magnus’ house. Seems just about everyone in the small town believes eccentric Magnus Tait is responsible for the murder of Catherine. This book starts with the introduction of Inspector Jimmy Perez and the murder of a beautiful teen aged girl, Catherine Ross. Raven Black is the first book in the Shetland series.
I decided to “visit” the Shetland Islands through Anne Cleeves descriptive prose for my armchair traveling.
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