These include Catherine's friend Sally Henry, a lonely girl who was isolated and bullied before being befriended by Catherine Duncan Hunter, who hosted the party that Catherine attended Robert Isbister, a local playboy who is known to date younger women and reportedly spent time with Catherine at the party, and Catherine's male English teacher, who admits to being attracted to her and had kissed her a few months earlier after inviting her to his home on the pretext of offering her advice on reading.
Despite local suspicions around Tait, Taylor and Perez interview a number of other people that they suspect of being involved. Fran Hunter also finds out that Catherine Ross attended a party hosted by her ex-husband the night before she died, and reports this fact to Taylor and Perez.
Fran, an English artist, had moved back to Shetland so that she could raise her young daughter Cassie with her ex-husband, Duncan Hunter, a Shetland businessman. Tait keeps an injured raven as a pet in his house.Ĭatherine Ross' body was discovered by her neighbour, Fran Hunter. Suspicions are raised when it is discovered that Catherine Ross and her friend Sally Henry had visited Tait shortly before Catherine was murdered. Although Tait was never convicted, he was shunned locally and believed to be involved when she disappeared. Tait was known to have been fond of her, as she was similar in age to his younger sister, who had died of an illness. Magnus Tait had previously been questioned in an old case involving the eight-year old disappearance of Catriona Bruce, a six-year-old child who lived near his house and often visited him to play. Initial suspicion is aimed at Magnus Tait, a mentally-challenged man living in the vicinity. Perez is directed in the investigation by a team of detectives from Inverness, led by Detective Inspector Roy Taylor. Local police inspector, Jimmy Perez, leads the investigation into the death. The novel opens with the death of a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl named Catherine Ross, whose body was discovered in a field on New Year's Day by Fran Hunter, an English artist staying in Shetland. Raven Black is set in Shetland, an archipelago off the coast of Scotland. Raven Black is the first in the "Shetland" mysteries, a series of eight novels by Cleeves, composed of two quartets, all set in Shetland. Raven Black is a 2006 novel by Ann Cleeves that won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award for the best crime novel of the year.
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