by Peter May
This book gave me chills in all the right ways. Not just because of the brilliant storyline but in the way the story unfolded and drew me in with every detailed scene. And that ending! I didn't see it coming at all, partly because I thought I'd figured it out a few chapters in and then, bam! It's ju...
Endinburgh's DS Fin Macleod returns to work after a month's bereavement leave and is immediately sent to the Isle of Lewis to aid in a murder investigation. The murder shares some commonalities with a murder he'd been investigating before his leave and Fin grew up in the same town as the murder -- i...
Book # 1, in the Lewis TrilogyThis is an intricately plotted story featuring Detective sergeant Finlay (Fin) Macleod of the Edinburgh police force. Fin has been dispatched to his home village of Crobost on the Isle of Lewis to investigate a gruesome murder that resembles another case he worked on in...
Home stretch – 24 books down, 1 to go! Bingo No. 11 – the Books: Magical Realism – Isabel Allende: La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits) Isabel Allende's breakout success and still one of my favorite novels by her (surpassed only by Of Love and Shadows): A multigenerational allegor...
The Books: Diverse Authors Can Be Spooky Fun – Sherman Alexie: Reservation Blues Well, more angry than spooky, actually, but anyway ... Robert Johnson is running from the devil ("the Gentleman" in the book) and ends up on the Spokane reservation. Afraid that "the Gentleman" might hear him if he pla...
"The Blackhouse" made Peter May's reputation . It won the Cezam Prix Littéraire Inter CE for best novel in 2011 and beat "Gone Girl" to the Barry Award for best novel in 2013. It became the first book in the best-selling "Lewis Trilogy". All of that passed me by at the time. I first encountered...
Synopsis: Isle of Lewis becomes the scene of a brutal murder. It shows similarities to one that occurs in Edinburgh. Could there be a serial killer on the loose? Police detective and Lewis native, Fin Macleod, is sent back to Lewis to investigate the murder. The victim just happens to be someone who...
There is something alluring (at least for me) with crime novels placed on islands, especially those far up in the north, with bad weather and people that have known each other for generations. I mean it wouldn't be the same if it would be set on a Caribbean paradise, for instance, who would ever wan...
Liked this much more than I thought I was going to. I'm always wary when it comes best-selling crime novels (well, in these parts it's been selling like hot cakes, at least). I grew up in a house where the crime genre was worshipped, and a day didn't go by that I wasn't exposed to a whodunnit on t...
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