Category: Crime, Mystery & Thrillers / Crime & Mysteries Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc Publication date: 1 September 2011 Number of pages: 432 Prizes:
Winner of Prix Ancres Noires 2010.
Description:
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.
What the papers say: 'vivid ... fascinating' Literary Review. 'excellent plotting with some beautiful descriptions of the Isle of Lewis ... The story is wonderful' crime pieces.
Author's Biography: Peter May has over 1,000 television credits to his name, and is the author of fifteen novels, including two series: The Enzo Files and The China Thrillers. He is also the only Westerner to become an honorary member of the Chinese Crime Writers' Association.
