Lewis Trilogy: The Lewis Man (Paperback)

from Cathymacleod

Blistering Set on the Isle of Lewis, this second of a crime trilogy is a pageturner. The author uses flashbacks to childhood to plant a few clues and spur the plot along. There is a blistering finish. Wow! Now I'm looking forward to Number Three. Strange to say, I was not taken by Peter May's mys...

from mimal

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from jtck121166

Much more than run-of-the-mill 'tartan noir' pulp fiction, this is certainly page-turning, unputdownable, plot-driven etc., but, more than all that, it is also a novel of real sensitivity and subtlety. The landscape of the western isles is evoked with love, and their geography, physical and psych...

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The Lewis man is the second novel in Peter May's Lewis Trilogy. I think it is every bit as excellent as the first one, The Blackhouse. Fin McLeod is once again the central character. He has resigned from his job as a detective inspector in Edinburgh and returned to Lewis, in an attempt to rebuild...

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The Lewis man is the second novel in Peter May's Lewis Trilogy. I think it is every bit as excellent as the first one, The Blackhouse. Fin McLeod is once again the central character. He has resigned from his job as a detective inspector in Edinburgh and returned to Lewis, in an attempt to rebuild...