Shortlisted for the 2013 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year.
September 2012 Book of the Month.
Shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Crime Book of the year 2012.
The second in the Lewis trilogy from the author of The Blackhouse . It is even better than the Richard & Judy chosen first. Having left his wife and career in Edinburgh, former policeman Fin Macleod has returned to live on the island of Lewis. The discovery of a unidentified corpse in a peat bog leads to a family asking for Fin's help and he feels duty-bound to help. One of our favourites of the month.
A body is recovered from a peat bog on the Isle of Lewis. The male Caucasian corpse is initially believed by its finders to be over 2000 years old, until they spot the Elvis tattoo on his right arm. The body, it transpires, is not evidence of an ancient ritual killing, but of a murder committed during the latter half of the 20th century.
Peter May was born and raised in Scotland. He was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BCC, he quit journalism and during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland's most successful television dramatists. He created three prime-time drama series, presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland as script editor and producer, and worked on more than 1,000 episodes of ratings-topping drama before deciding to leave television to return to his first love, writing novels.
