![]() ![]() In the acknowledgments, May (Blowback) reveals that he drew much of his inspiration from five years filming on the island. ![]() The struggles of such multidimensional characters as Artair, Macleod's boyhood friend, and Marsaili, the girl they both loved and Artair married, add depth. Titles In This Set The Chessmen (Lewis Trilogy 3)The Lewis Man: Book Two of the Lewis TrilogyThe Blackhouse: Book One of the Lewis TrilogyThe Chessmen. Abundant local color much of it physically and psychologically wrenching, like the islanders' annual culling of seabirds, a primitive rite of passage matches Macleod's tormented emotional landscape. Back in Macleod's home village of Crobost, first-person flashbacks gradually unveil contradictory episodes of horror and compassion in his youth, counterpointing the third-person account of the present-day murder case. PETER MAY: THE MAN WHO BROUGHT MURDER TO THE OUTER HEBRIDES A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith. While grieving over the accidental death of his only child, Fin investigates a grisly homicide nearly identical to a previous case in Edinburgh. A page-turning murder mystery that explores the darkness in our souls, and just how difficult it is to escape the past. Television dramatist May's brilliant first in a trilogy set on the Gaelic-speaking Isle of Lewis, northernmost of Scotland's Outer Hebrides, introduces Fin Macleod, a Lewis native and Edinburgh CID detective sergeant. The Blackhouse is a crime novel of rare power and vision. ![]()
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