A series of memorable characters and vignettes ... The most biting sketch in The Black Book is a caricature of a red-neck super-patriot Wildcat--"It's people like me what come from old stock ...

Raven Black is the first book of eight in Ann Cleeves’ Shetland series, which was adapted into the television series Shetland. The New York Times said of Raven Black, which was awarded the ...

The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his young Italian nurse of a similarly uncertain ...