The Black Loch
Along with his wife, Marsaili, former police officer Fin Macleod travels to the Isle of Lewis, where a young woman named Caitlin, a local TV celebrity, is found dead. Arrested for her murder is Finn and Marshely's son, Fionnlagh, who was in an extramarital affair with her. His parents must do everything in their power to exonerate their son, convinced that he is incapable of murder. Finn puts his detective skills to work and begins his own investigation, which brings him face to face with people from his childhood and youth. The more facts Fin discovers, the more convinced he becomes that the past is inextricably linked to current events, and that the parents' mistakes are being paid for by their children.
With The Black Loch, Peter May returns to his character Fin Macleod from the Isle of Lewis trilogy and reacquaints us with the lives of the people of this distinctive and harsh place. Like the previous books about the island, this one is packed with suspense, danger and thrilling intrigue right up to the last page.
Peter May
"Peter May is a writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth" - New York Times
Peter May is the multi award-winning author of:
- the award-winning Lewis Trilogy set in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland;
- the China Thrillers, featuring Beijing detective Li Yan and American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell;
- the Enzo Files, featuring Scottish forensic scientist Enzo MacLeod, which is set in France. The sixth and final Enzo book is Cast Iron (UK January 2017, Riverrun).
He has also written several standalone books, most recently:
- Entry Island (January 2014, Quercus UK)
- Runaway (January 2015, Quercus UK)
- Coffin Road (January 2016, Riverrun)
He has also had a successful career as a television writer, creator, and producer.
One of Scotland's most prolific television dramatists, he garnered more than 1000 credits in 15 years as scriptwriter and script editor on prime-time British television drama. He is the creator of three major television drama series and presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland before quitting television to concentrate on his first love, writing novels.
Born and raised in Scotland he lives in France. After being turned down by all the major UK publishers, the first of the The Lewis Trilogy - The Blackhouse - was published in France as L'Ile des Chasseurs d'Oiseaux where it was hailed as "a masterpiece" by the French national newspaper L'Humanité. His novels have a large following in France. The trilogy has won several French literature awards, including one of the world's largest adjudicated readers awards, the Prix Cezam.
The Blackhouse was published in English by the award-winning Quercus (a relatively young publishing house which did not exist when the book was first presented to British publishers). It went on to become an international best seller, and was shortlisted for both Barry Award and Macavity Award when it was published in the USA.
The Blackhouse won the US Barry Award for Best Mystery Novel at Bouchercon in Albany NY, in 2013.
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