The Lewis man - Peter May

THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERS
AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021

'One of the best regarded crime series of recent years.' Independent
'No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel than Peter May.' New York Journal of Books

A MAN WITH NO NAME

An unidentified corpse is recovered from a Lewis peat bog; the only clue to its identity being a DNA sibling match to a local farmer.

A MAN WITH NO MEMORY

But this islander, Tormod Macdonald - now an elderly man suffering from dementia - has always claimed to be an only child.

A MAN WITH NO CHOICE

When Tormod's family approach Fin Macleod for help, Fin feels duty-bound to solve the mystery.

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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 BBC, 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.

In 2021, he was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library Award. He has also won several literature awards in France, received the USA's Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 was awarded the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year award for Entry Island. Peter now lives in South-West France with his wife, writer Janice Hally.

A rip-roaring thriller . . . thoroughly enjoyable
Mail on Sunday

A wonderfully complex book
Peter James, on Entry Island

The Lewis Man shone like a bright star out of this year's book lists. Lyrical, empathetic and moving

He is a terrific writer doing something different

From the first page I knew I was in safe hands. I knew I could trust this writer

Wonderfully compelling

Western France - now May's own stamping ground - is as much a character in the book as the Hebrides were in his formidable Isle of Lewis sequence
Guardian

Peter May is a writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth
New York Times

Instantly struck by the beauty of the descriptions of the wild island terrain as well as by the roundedness and complexity of the characterisations
The Times

One of the best regarded crime series of recent years
Independent

May's novels are strong on place and the wounds left by old relationships
Sunday Times

Will have the reader relishing every tendency of description and characterization
Independent

Dark, exciting and atmospheric
Scotland on Sunday

Powerful and authentic
Glasgow Sunday Herald

Fast, exciting ... an entertaining read that will also give food for thought
Irish Times

A tense and atmospheric thriller with a heart-stopping ending
Tangled Web

Truly the best of May's series so far, this is not to be missed
The Good Book Guide