The Chessmen

THE NAIL-BITING, BESTSELLING FINAL CHAPTER IN THE LEWIS TRILOGY’One of the best regarded crime series of recent years’ Independent’Peter May is a writer I’d follow to the ends of the earth’ New York TimesPETER MAY: THE MAN WHO BROUGHT MURDER TO THE OUTER HEBRIDESTHE NEW STARTFin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island.THE OLD FRIENDThis mission reunites him with Whistler Macaskill – a local poacher, Fin’s teenage intimate, and possessor of a long-buried secret.THE FINAL CHAPTERBut when this reunion takes a violent, sinister turn and Fin puts together the fractured pieces of the past, he realizes that revealing the truth could destroy the future.LOVED THE LEWIS TRILOGY? Read Peter May’s other Hebrides thrillers, COFFIN ROAD and I’LL KEEP YOU SAFE.LOVE PETER MAY? Buy his latest frontlist thriller, A SILENT DEATH

Reviews of The Chessmen

A rip-roaring thriller . . . thoroughly enjoyable * Mail on Sunday * A wonderfully complex book The Lewis Man shone like a bright star out of this year's book lists. Lyrical, empathetic and moving He is a terrific writer doing something different From the first page I knew I was in safe hands. I knew I could trust this writer Wonderfully compelling 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 * 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 * One of the best regarded crime series of recent years * Independent * May's novels are strong on place and the wounds left by old relationships * Sunday Times *