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The Blackhouse: The Lewis Trilogy Audiobook
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From acclaimed author and dramatist Peter May comes the Barry Award-winning The Blackhouse, the first book in the Lewis Trilogy -- a riveting mystery series set on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland's Outer Hebrides.
When a grisly murder occurs on the Isle of Lewis that bears similarities to a brutal killing on the mainland, Edinburgh detective and native islander Fin Macleod is dispatched to the Outer Hebrides to investigate, embarking at the same time on a voyage into his own troubled past.
As Fin reconnects with the people and places of his tortured childhood, the desolate but beautiful island and its ancient customs once again begin to assert their grip on his psyche. Every step toward solving the case brings Fin closer to a dangerous confrontation with the dark events of the past that shaped -- and nearly destroyed -- his life.
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"Order, read, and pass it on! May brings the story to a breathtaking conclusion with an astonishing twist at the end. Compare to Simon Beckett's Written in Bone for locale and Tana French for tone."
— Teresa L. Jacobsen, Library Journal (Starred Review)
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Brilliant…Abundant local color—much of it physically and psychologically wrenching…matches Macleod’s tormented emotional landscape.”
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“Order, read, and pass it on! Well known for novels and television dramas, Scottish author May has written a mesmerizing new trilogy opener.”
— Library Journal (starred review) -
The Blackhouse shines with intrigue and superb plotting.
— Carol Memmet, USA Today -
A chilling setting for a gripping novel... impressive writing.
— Marcel Berlins, The Times -
A gripping plot, pitch-perfect characterization, and an appropriately bleak setting drive this outstanding series debut.
— Connie Fletcher, Booklist (starred review) -
A writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth... intricately plotted.
— Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review -
Abundant local color... matches Macleod's tormented emotional landscape. The struggles of such multidimensional characters... add depth.
— Publishers Weekly (starred review) -
A thriller with an intensity that never slackens, chilling and igneous at the same time, like the great country that serves as its setting. A masterpiece indeed.
— L'Humanite
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About Peter May
Peter May, born and raised in Scotland, was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BBC, he quit journalism and during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland’s most successful television dramatists. He created three prime-time drama series, presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland as script editor and producer, and worked on more than 1,000 episodes of ratings-topping drama before deciding to leave television to return to his first love, writing novels. He has won several literature awards in France, received the USA’s Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 Entry Island won the Deanston’s Scottish Crime Novel of the Year and the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year Award.
About Peter Forbes
Peter Forbes is an audiobook narrator and actor. He studied English in the same year as Ian Rankin at Edinburgh University. His credits include Berkeley Square (BBC), Peter Kosminsky’s The Government Inspector (Channel 4 UK), the award-winning Black Watch, Never So Good, Afterlife, and Mamma Mia! (London West End). He was nominated in the 2011 Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland for his performance in Liz Lochhead’s Educating Agnes.