Monday, October 13, 2014

The Black House

Fin Macleod has recently lost a child and it has kept him from returning to his policing job in Edinburgh.  Now he has been forced back to work because of a murder in his hometown on the Isle of Lewis; the question is whether it is the same killer he had been investigating in Edinburgh.

DS George Gunn meets him at the airport in Stornoway.  They immediately connect, however, the DCI sent from the mainland, Tom Smith is not impressed.  He sees no need for Fin, nor help from the local police.  Gunn tells Fin that the victim had been accused of an assault and a sexual assault.

As Fin progresses with his investigation, memories of his childhood in the area come flooding back.  Will the ghosts of his past help him solve the murders?

Author Peter May uses flashbacks to develop the characters in this murder mystery, weaving them into the main plot.  The story becomes very intense, and is hard to put down.  A very good read, and I look forward to reading the next two books in this trilogy.

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