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This is my first novel written by the author Peter May. The narrator was fine and the author created an interesting story with well-detailed characters, primarily male. The novel is focused on the lead detective, Fin Macleod, who is posted in Edinburgh, but originally from the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides. Macleod left the isle for college and never returned (for many reasons).
He has many trepidations about returning home, especially concerning the "similar" murder (mare-dur) that occured th ...more
This is my first novel written by the author Peter May. The narrator was fine and the author created an interesting story with well-detailed characters, primarily male. The novel is focused on the lead detective, Fin Macleod, who is posted in Edinburgh, but originally from the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides. Macleod left the isle for college and never returned (for many reasons).
He has many trepidations about returning home, especially concerning the "similar" murder (mare-dur) that occured th ...more
I honestly don't know how to rate this one. A murder mystery in the Hebrides Islands in Scotland. I figured out the murderer early one, so that felt a little flat for me.
pro: Lewis Island really became a major character in this book
Cons: Although the backstory was important in this book, I felt it went on too long. ...more
pro: Lewis Island really became a major character in this book
Cons: Although the backstory was important in this book, I felt it went on too long. ...more
I picked up this first book in a Scottish crime trilogy mainly because it's set in the Hebrides Islands, off the northwest coast of Scotland. The story kicks off with Edinburgh DI Fin MacLeod coming off a month of bereavement leave, following the death of his son and apparent dissolution of his marriage. He's assigned to return to his hometown on the Isle of Lewis, where the details of a murder are quite similar to a murder he was investigating in the city. What follows is a deep dive into his b
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Couldn't get into it. Too many descriptive paragraphs/pages of street locations, rooftops, you name it, by the time you finished reading them you've forgotten the thread of the story....
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This is more a lierary novel, a coming of age story of a sort, than a mystery although there are several deaths by misadventure or murder it's not clear which. Set on the island of Lewis in the Hebrides, one gets a great sense of place and the type of soul that can survive living in such a garsh place. First of a planned trilogy.
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