The Lewis Trilogy: The Blackhouse : The Lewis Trilogy (Series #1) (Paperback)

from viking2917

Fin Macleod is a brooding, impulsive detective, investigating a horrific murder in Edinburgh, and recovering (or not) from the death of his 8 year old son and the unraveling of his marriage. Word comes from the isle of Lewis in the northernmost Hebrides of a similar murder, and Fin is sent back t...

from adpaton

Peter May is an established writer of both novels and TV series - of whom I had never heard before - so I was fortunate to discover him in The Blackhouse, the first in a trilogy featuring Detective Fin Macleod and set on the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides. Comparisons to Ann Cleeves' Shetland Quar...

from librarian1204

Excellent. I think that this was a NetGalley book that I did not get to right away and it disappeared from NetGalley but was still on my iPad. I am so happy to have been able to read it. Setting is fantastic. Outer Hebrides, Lewis, is an atmospheric locale for a murder. The main character, Finn, ...

from Eyejaybee

A compelling but bleak novel, set on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Detective Inspector Fin McLeod, still distraught following the death of his eight year old son, is despatched back to Lewis to assist in the investigation of a murder bearing many of the hallmarks of a case he had been working on i...

from icolford

The Blackhouse (the first volume of Peter May's Lewis Trilogy) is remarkable for several reasons. It is a rapid-paced and absorbing who-done-it. It is a brilliant character study of a man haunted by his past. And it is a thoroughly engaging, deeply imaginative and often dazzling piece of writing ...