Book Week Scotland: Dark Secrets of The Dean

Appropriately for Book Week Scotland (and St. Andrews Day of course!) I’ve been reading a Scottish mystery which has thrown up some fascinating connections. The Lewis Man is the second in Peter May’s trilogy and I’m grateful to the friend who tipped me off about it as it’s a haunting and intriguing read against a backdrop of the Outer Hebrides, which to be honest are as remote to me as a foreign country.

It’s about ex-cop Fin who returns from Edinburgh to his island home to find that a body ac...