But Perez isn't going to let a witch-hunt get in the way of his investigation, even when it emerges that another girl who went missing 19 years ago lived in the same house as Catherine. The villagers have already reached their conclusions. Catherine dropped in on Magnus in his shack the previous day, for cake. Except he's not sleeping at the moment, no one is. This one is caged, perhaps so it doesn't peck out Magnus's eyes when he sleeps. On the hill up above, an eccentric old loner called Magnus Bain (non-prof Brian Cox, the standout performance along with the coastline) lives alone in his croft with his own pet raven. They haven't gone for her eyes yet thankfully – I thought they pecked out the eyes perhaps it's just lambs' ones they like. Unless they're crows of course, in which case it's a murder? Also apt. Is that an unkindness of ravens, or a storytelling? Both fit. The body of Catherine Ross lies on the beach with the flood tide lapping at her feet and ravens pecking at her flesh. Celtic Noir is the new Nordic Noir, don't you know? Actually they're pretty much Vikings up there in Shetland anyway, aren't they? It's actually further north than any of those Scandi cop shows, same latitude as the tip of Greenland. Also of The Killing, The Bridge, Wallander etc. There is something of Insomnia about Shetland – murder and mysterious northern mist.
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