The Blackhouse

Author Peter May
Narrator Peter Forbes, Peter Forbes
Publisher Quercus
Run Time 12 hours and 27 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Modern and contemporary fiction.

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What to expect

READ THE SUNDAY TIMES AND RICHARD AND JUDY BESTSELLER, AND THE FIRST INSTALMENT 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.

(P)2018 Quercus Editions Limited

Critics Review

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

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

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