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Coming from Fair Isle to Shetland he understands how it must have been for Catherine as an outsider.

Perez is a fascinating character, descended from a seaman from the Spanish Armada, shipwrecked on Fair Isle. Whilst everyone else is convinced of Magnus’s guilt Perez doesn’t want to jump to conclusions and and feels pity for him. Inspector Jimmy Perez, originally from Fair Isle, is in charge of the investigation until the arrival of a team from Inverness headed up by DI Roy Taylor. When Catherine’s body is discovered the police and the locals immediately suspect that Magnus must have killed her. At the time, although he had never been charged with anything, everyone was convinced that Magnus had killed her. A few days later Catherine is found dead in the snow not far from Magnus’s house, strangled with her own scarf.Įight years earlier a young girl, Catriona, had gone missing and had never been found. One of the girls is Sally, the daughter of the primary schoolteacher and the other is Catherine, an English girl whose father is the Head Teacher at Anderson High School. To his delight two teenage girls knock on his door to wish him a Happy New Year.

Magnus, a simple elderly man lives by himself, shunned by most of the other islanders. It’s set in Shetland and begins on New Year’s Eve with Magnus Tait seeing the new year in on his own. Raven Black is the first book I’ve read by Ann Cleeves.