How long does it take to read Raven Black?
Book One of the Shetland Island Quartet
Raven Black by Ann Cleeves takes about 6 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 58 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2006. 380 pages, about 104,500 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Raven Black begins on New Year's Eve with a lonely outcast named Magnus Tait, who stays home waiting for visitors who never come. But the next morning the body of a murdered teenage girl is discovered nearby, and suspicion falls on Magnus. Inspector Jimmy Perez enters an investigative maze that leads deeper into the past of the Shetland Islands than anyone wants to go.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Scotland, fiction
