Raven Black: Book One of the Shetland Island Mysteries -- Ann Cleeves, Paperback Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction See how Halloween Town

See how Halloween Town

debut authors Nicholas Hummingbird and Julia Wasson joyfully proclaim even the youngest person can be an earth protector

Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within the ward's tightly secured walls

a pensive owl and slow-but-steady turtle

the domestic female and the physician switched places in the cultural consciousness: she became the ineffective

Raven Black: Book One of the Shetland Island Mysteries -- Ann Cleeves, Paperback Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction See how Halloween TownThe basis for the hit series "Shetland" now airing on PBS. Winner of Britain's coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, Ann Cleeves's Raven Black introduces a dazzling suspense series to U. S. mystery readers. It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a splash of color on the frozen ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbor, Catherine Ross.