This is a crime novel of rare power and vision. When a brutal murder on the Isle of Lewis bears the hallmarks of a
similar slaying in Edinburgh, police detective Fin Macleod is dispatched
north to investigate. But since he himself was raised on Lewis, the
investigation also represents a journey home and into his past. Peter May has crafted a page-turning murder mystery that explores the
darkness in our souls, and shows us just how difficult it is to escape the past.
Peter May was born and raised in Scotland. He 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 BCC, 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.
