The Blackhouse

BOOK ONE IN THE MILLION-SELLING LEWIS TRILOGY.A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. A RICHARD & JUDY PICK.WINNER OF THE USA’S BARRY AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR.PETER MAY: THE MAN WHO BROUGHT MURDER TO THE OUTER HEBRIDES’One of the best regarded crime series of recent years’ IndependentA brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith.A MURDERDetective 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 SECRETSomething 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.LOVED THE BLACKHOUSE? Read book 2 in the Lewis trilogy, THE LEWIS MANLOVE PETER MAY? Buy his latest frontlist thriller, A SILENT DEATH

Reviews of The Blackhouse

Truly the best of May's series so far, this is not to be missed * The Good Book Guide * A tense and atmospheric thriller with a heart-stopping ending * Tangled Web * Fast, exciting … an entertaining read that will also give food for thought * Irish Times * Powerful and authentic * Glasgow Sunday Herald * Dark, exciting and atmospheric * Scotland on Sunday * Will have the reader relishing every tendency of description and characterization * Independent * May's novels are strong on place and the wounds left by old relationships * Sunday 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 * Peter May is a writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth * New York Times * 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 * Wonderfully compelling From the first page I knew I was in safe hands. I knew I could trust this writer He is a terrific writer doing something different * Mark Billingham * The Lewis Man shone like a bright star out of this year's book lists. Lyrical, empathetic and moving A wonderfully complex book A rip-roaring thriller . . . thoroughly enjoyable * Mail on Sunday *