Blackhouse
The gripping start to the bestselling crime series (Lewis Trilogy Book 1)
«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
A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith. A murder - Detective Inspector Fin Macleod is sent from Edinburgh to investigate. Les mer
A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith. A murder - Detective Inspector Fin Macleod is sent from Edinburgh to investigate. For Lewis-born Macleod, the case represents a journey both home and into his past. A secret - something lurks within the close-knit island community. Something sinister. A trapas - Fin investigates, old skeletons begin to surface, and soon he, the hunter, becomes the hunted.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- riverrun
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 512
- ISBN
- 9781849163866
- Utgivelsesår
- 2011
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
- Priser
- Winner of Prix Ancres Noires 2010.
Anmeldelser
«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
«He is a terrific writer doing something different»
Mark Billingham
«From the first page I knew I was in safe hands. I knew I could trust this writer»
Sohpie Hannah
«Wonderfully compelling»
Kate Mosse
«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
«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»
Barry Forshaw, 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
«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»
Alex Gray
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