Peter May
Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Marilyn Stasio in The New York Times raved: "Peter May is a writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth." Among the many honors received,The Blackhouse, the first novel in May's acclaimed Lewis trilogy, won the Barry and Crime Thriller Hound awards.
In The Lewis Man, the second book of the trilogy, Fin Macleod has returned to the Isle of Lewis, the storm-tossed, wind-scoured outer Hebridean island where he was born and raised. Having left behind his...
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 7
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Enzo's investigations reveal an unexpected link between two murders separated by seventy years: the Mona Lisa.
3) Snake head
Author
Series
China thrillers volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A vehicle crammed with dozens of dead Chinese immigrants is found in southern Texas. Pathologist Margaret Campbell must put aside her horror, and find out why. Detective Li Yan - an even more unwelcome memory for Campbell - has arrived stateside to investigate a link in the case to a lucrative trade in illegal labourers. Li and Campbell will soon find that the crime scene hides another secret: a biological time bomb linking traffickers, politicians...
5) Blowback
Author
Series
Enzo Macleod volume 5
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Seven years earlier, France's top chef, Marc Fraysse, summoned the world's culinary press to his remote restaurant in central France to make an announcement that he said would cause shockwaves in the culinary community. Speculating that Fraysse's restaurant was about to lose one of his precious Michelin stars, the reporters were shocked to find instead that the great chef had been murdered. In the end, the media left without a clue about the...
Author
Series
Enzo Macleod volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Half-Scottish, half-Italian Enzo MacLeod used to be one of the top forensics experts in Scotland, and now he lives in Toulouse, working as a university professor. Divorced in Scotland and widowed in France, he has an estranged Scottish daughter and a French daughter he has raised by himself. As if his life isn't complicated enough, he soon finds himself unexpectedly in the hunt for solutions to some vexing cold cases thanks to an ill-advised wager...
Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When a grisly murder occurs on a Scottish island, Edinburgh detective Fin Macleod must confront his past if he is ever going to discover if the killing has a connection to another one that took place on the mainland.
9) Coffin road
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, a man washes up on a deserted beach with no knowledge of who he is or how he got there, while homicide detective George Gunn makes the ocean crossing to a remote lighthouse on a rock in the North Atlantic to investigate a brutal murder.
In the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, a man washes up on a deserted beach with no knowledge of who he is or how he got there. At a remote, sea-battered lighthouse on a rock in the northern...
10) A winter grave
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It is the year 2051. Warnings of climate catastrophe have been ignored, and vast areas of the planet are under water, or uninhabitably hot. A quarter of the world's population has been displaced by hunger and flooding, and immigration wars are breaking out around the globe as refugees pour into neighboring countries. By contrast, melting ice sheets have brought the Gulf Stream to a halt and northern latitudes, including Scotland, are being hit by...
11) Entry Island
Author
Pub. Date
2015, c2014.
Language
English
Description
When a murder rocks the isolated community of Entry Island, insomniac homicide detective Sime Mackenzie boards a light aircraft at St. Hubert airfield bound for the small, scattered chain of Madeline Islands, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, as part of an eight-officer investigation team from Montr�eal.