Wednesday 28 August 2013

The Chessmen, Peter May

Read on the Kindle after reading The Blackhouse and The Lewis Man.

Yet more weather in this book, where a freak storm leads to the draining of a loch, and the discovery of a light aeroplane, which went off the radar 17 years previously, and a dead body inside.

Once again the investigation involves Fin Macleod. We learn even more of his history, this time from his days at school and university working as a roadie for a Celtic rock band.

Another page turner from Peter May.  Each book of the trilogy weaves together the story happening in the present, told in the third person, with episodes from the past, usually told in the first person. Although this one the least convincing of the three to me, the trilogy as a whole is crying out to be made into a TV mini series.


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