Monday, October 5, 2015

The Black House

DI Fin Macleod has been sent from Edinburgh to his home, the Isle of Lewis, to help with an investigation into a murder he was investigating on the mainland just before the tragic death of his so.  He is welcomed in Stornoway by DS George Gunn, however, not by DCI Tom Smith, who had also been sent up from the mainland to run the investigation.

As DS Gunn drives Macleod around his former home, memories come flooding back.  His investigation leads him to a childhood friend, whose daughter had been allegedly raped by the victim.  He also meets with an animal rights protester who had been beaten up by the victim.  Could either of these men have killed the man and then hoisted him to a rafter?

The more Macleod investigates, the more about his own past comes to light.  Yet will that past continue to haunt him as the investigation progresses?  Author Peter May has written a fast paced, riveting murder mystery, which will keep the reader engrossed.

I initially read this book a few years ago, and upon reading it a second time, I found that author Peter May really spoke to me on a personal level.

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