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The Blackhouse (Lewis Trilogy, #1) by Peter May.
This was my first novel by Peter May which won the Barry Award for Best Novel.
The story centers on the relationship between between Fin Macleod and Artair Macinnes both raised in their hometown of Crobost. The third wheel, so to speak, in their alliance is a farm girl Marsaili. Their relationship is thrown off balance and often teeters back & forth due to Marsaili.
A gruesome murder is discovered in the black house the feelings of most of the vill ...more
This was my first novel by Peter May which won the Barry Award for Best Novel.
The story centers on the relationship between between Fin Macleod and Artair Macinnes both raised in their hometown of Crobost. The third wheel, so to speak, in their alliance is a farm girl Marsaili. Their relationship is thrown off balance and often teeters back & forth due to Marsaili.
A gruesome murder is discovered in the black house the feelings of most of the vill ...more
This book surprised me some- in a good way. I was expecting a police procedural set on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. It was but it was much more than that. Fin Macleod grew up on Lewis Isle, left to go to the university in Glascow and later became a policeman. He only returned to the island once in 18 years and that was for the death of his aunt. He is sent back to the Island to see if a murder committed in Edinburgh was committed by the same person as the murder on the Island. He kno
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Detective Inspector Fin Macleod returns to the place of his childhood on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. After an absence of almost eighteen years, Fin finds the island relatively unchanged, but investigating the unexplained death of one of his childhood friends is never going to be easy, and old secrets, long buried, now threaten to disturb the equilibrium, not just for Fin, but for the whole of the Lewis community. Despite Fin's shared affinity with the island, the people and its conv
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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 the TV in the afternoon, a police procedural on in the evening, a Christie drama on the radio...it never ended.
Anyway, usually these days if I do dip into the crime genre, the book has to have an interes ...more
Anyway, usually these days if I do dip into the crime genre, the book has to have an interes ...more
"A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith.
"A Murder
"Detective Inspector Fin Macleod is sent from Edinburgh to investigate. For Lewis-born Macleod, the case represents a journey both home and into his past.
"A Secret
"Something lurks within the close-knit island community. Something sinister.
"A Trap
As Fin investigates, old skeletons begin to surface and soon he, the hunter, becomes the hunted."
~~back cover
Wow. What a pl ...more
"A Murder
"Detective Inspector Fin Macleod is sent from Edinburgh to investigate. For Lewis-born Macleod, the case represents a journey both home and into his past.
"A Secret
"Something lurks within the close-knit island community. Something sinister.
"A Trap
As Fin investigates, old skeletons begin to surface and soon he, the hunter, becomes the hunted."
~~back cover
Wow. What a pl ...more
For me The Blackhouse had a pleasant pace, it illudes to events and then takes you back to them and is brilliant at building the tension and showing how difficult it can be to escape your past. The ending has a brilliant twist too.
There is so much more to this book than just finding out who the killer is, including discoering Fin's past. Rather than the sometimes glimpsed past of a dectective, we get a whole history filtered throughout the book and the ties to the island and it's community are ...more
There is so much more to this book than just finding out who the killer is, including discoering Fin's past. Rather than the sometimes glimpsed past of a dectective, we get a whole history filtered throughout the book and the ties to the island and it's community are ...more
Although a somewhat interesting mystery, it comes with extremely gory details... a lot of vulgar language... and some 'adult' content.
It did have a cool way of intertwining the present day story with flashbacks from the past -- which for me was the most intriguing thing about the whole story. Also, it did have a great twist at the end; I certainly hadn't accurately pegged the killer myself, but then, there were all the clues. ...more
It did have a cool way of intertwining the present day story with flashbacks from the past -- which for me was the most intriguing thing about the whole story. Also, it did have a great twist at the end; I certainly hadn't accurately pegged the killer myself, but then, there were all the clues. ...more
A gripping tale of murder, deceit and long buried secrets set on Scotland's West Coast.
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