Review by Sue Majors read live on bookshow April 2014
By the writer of the Lewis Trilogy, this is another enjoyable
quality novel. Peter May has managed to combine beautiful writing ....poetic at
times ...with an intriguing murder mystery, this time set in Canada.
Entry Island has at its centre Sime Mackenzie, a Montreal detective with
Scottish roots not surprisingly on Lewis.he is another detective in the sad
lonely vein of Kurt Wallander and Harry Hole, but is nevertheless a believable
character ...and I warmed to him right away.
The setting and time move between Entry island in the St Lawrence river,
and Lewis at the time of the highland clearances. My knowledge of the clearances
was sketchy, and this book gives you a full flavour of the terrible treatment
meted out to islanders at the time.
Sime is sent to investigate a murder...the first anyone can remember on
Entry island...and it is there that he meets the prime suspect, feeling oddly
that he has seen her before.
Once I got used to the time slips in the story I really enjoyed this book.
Peter May is a writer who has been new to me in the last six months but I shall
read more of his work....he's a great talent.
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