Wednesday 28 August 2013

The Blackhouse, Peter May

Read on the Kindle, Gillian's choice for Book Club.

Detective Inspector Fin Macleod, still reeling from the hit and run killing of his son, is sent from his home in Edinburgh to the Island of Lewis where he grew up on the behest of the police computer Holmes, which has linked one of his investigations with a murder on the island.

So far, so standard police procedural, however, Fin turns out to have a vast back story and a great deal of unfinished business on the Isle.

The author uses the bleak Scottish setting to good effect, there's more weather in this book than any I've read recently.

I found this book to be a real page turner, the ending didn't really ring true for me.  Liked it enough to download the second and third parts of the trilogy.

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