The Blackhouse
The second instalment in the highly acclaimed detective trilogy
The perfectly preserved body of a young man is found in a peat bog on the Isle of Lewis, bearing the marks of several horrific stab and slash wounds. The police initially believe the young man fell victim to a ritual killing hundreds of years ago, but an Elvis Presley tattoo on his right arm reveals the murder must have occurred much later, in the second half of the twentieth century.
Meanwhile, former police detective Fin Macleod returns to his native island. Having split up with his wife, left behind his life in Edinburgh and walked away from his career in the police force, he is now trying to rebuild old relationships and restore his parents' derelict house. But when DNA tests prove a genetic link between the body in the bog and the father of Fin's childhood sweetheart, Marsaili Macdonald, Fin realises his homecoming is going to be rather more turbulent than he anticipated.
Tormod Macdonald, now an elderly man suffering from dementia, has claimed all his life to be an only child with no close relatives. And Fin discovers that Tormod had a very good reason to lie.
"(The author) manages to perfectly evoke the feeling that the wind blowing through his characters' coats is threatening you too, and that everyone is in danger. Which is a feeling we experience less and less when reading detective thrillers. So thanks to Host for May."
aktualne.cz
"Another great book that is just as outstanding on every line as The Blackhouse... The author writes so grippingly that it completely absorbs you."
Euro Crime
"The plot pulses with past and present passions, jealousy, suspicion and regret; the emotional secrets of the gloomy island's inhabitants run even deeper than its peat bogs."The Times
"Peter May is a master storyteller. He deftly combines pathos and questions of identity, the theme of lost love and family relationships to create a thrilling thriller."
The Irish Examiner
"The Lewis Man shone as a bright star in this year's book charts. Lyrical, empathetic and moving."
Alex Gray, American artist and author
Peter May (*1951)
Originally from Glasgow, he now lives in France. He first made his living as a journalist and was one of the most successful and prolific television screenwriters. He now writes novels. The six-part series of "China" thrillers, featuring the young Chinese commissioner Li Yan and American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell, won him worldwide renown. Host publishing house starts releasing this series in 2015. For the first volume of the Lewis trilogy, the international bestseller The Blackhouse (2009; published in Czech by Host in 2013), Peter May won the 2013 Barry Award for best novel of the year and numerous other accolades. The second instalment in the series, The Lewis Man (2012), is also met with great critical acclaim, spending a full eighteen weeks in the British bestseller lists. The final part of the trilogy, The Chessmen (2013), is currently being prepared for Czech publication, as is the novel Entry Island (2014).
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