review by Sue Major live on the bookshow 14th Nov 2013
."Black House"; " The Lewis Man"
and " The Chess Men"
Peter May is a new writer to me .
Interestingly he is apparently an award winning journalist who lives in
France and this
Trilogy was originally published in french, winning the Le
Havre festival crime writers award.
The books centre on Detective
Inspector Fin Macleod a Lewis-born officer sent from
Edinburgh to lewis to solve a brutal
murder. Of course, DI Macleod's journey is not just for the detection of the
crime but also a personal journey into his past.
All three books are immensely
readable. Like all books they have their slower bits but nevertheless I wanted
to know the outcomes. They could be read as stand alone novels, but they do
follow on from each other chronologically.
I would recommend these to anyone
who enjoys a detective/crime novel....and incidentally anyone who is interested
in a glimpse into life on the Western Isles.
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