A Sunday Times Bestseller
The First Installment in Peter May's Sensational, million-selling Lewis trilogy.
A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith.
A murder.
Detective 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 secret.
Something lurks within the close-knit island community. Something sinister.
A trap.
As Fin investigates, old skeletons begin to surface, and soon he, the hunter, becomes the hunted.
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
ISBN: 9781849163866
Number of pages: 512
Weight: 350 g
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 36 mm
A rip-roaring thriller . . . thoroughly enjoyable - Mail on Sunday
A wonderfully complex book - Peter James, on Entry Island
The Lewis Man shone like a bright star out of this year's book lists. Lyrical, empathetic and moving - Alex Gray
He is a terrific writer doing something different - Mark Billingham
From the first page I knew I was in safe hands. I knew I could trust this writer - Sohpie Hannah
Wonderfully compelling - Kate Mosse
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
May's novels are strong on place and the wounds left by old relationships - Sunday Times
Will have the reader relishing every tendency of description and characterization - Barry Forshaw, Independent
Dark, exciting and atmospheric - Scotland on Sunday
Powerful and authentic - Glasgow Sunday Herald
Fast, exciting ... an entertaining read that will also give food for thought - Irish Times
A tense and atmospheric thriller with a heart-stopping ending - Tangled Web
Truly the best of May's series so far, this is not to be missed - The Good Book Guide
A truley magnificent book & author. I love the sheer in depth detail & place it's set. The whole story line is different to those of other Crime novels. There wasn't a part of the book I didn't...
Only weeks after the death of his young son, Detective Inspector Fin Macleod is sent to Lewis, the Hebridean island of his birth to use his local knowledge to check out the similarity between the murder of an... More
I’m not the biggest of crime readers, generally I dabble in and out, but this is certainly one of the best I have ever read. As soon as I was done with this one I was down to my local Waterstones to buy the next two... More
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