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Sign up todayThe Blackhouse
The Lewis Trilogy
Narrator
Peter Forbes
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Length
12 hours 20 minutes
Language
English
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“There has been a murder on the stark Hebridean Isle of Lewis, in the same small town where Edinburgh police detective Fin Macleod was raised, but Fin, sent to investigate, spends much more time peeling back the tragic history of his own youth than following the usual clues. Once the events of The Blackhouse have all unfurled, you'll understand why Fin was so reluctant to return to the island he left for good at the age of 18. The revelations are disturbing and dramatic (even melodramatic), but the real fascination for me was the setting, especially a brutal traditional bird-hunting outing on a nesting rock in the Atlantic, and in the audio version, the atmosphere is only heightened by Peter Forbes's wonderful narration, modulating between island and mainland Scottish accents.”
— Tom • Phinney Books
From acclaimed author and dramatist Peter May comes the Barry Award-winning The Blackhouse, the first book in the Lewis Trilogy -- a riveting mystery series set on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland's Outer Hebrides.
When a grisly murder occurs on the Isle of Lewis that bears similarities to a brutal killing on the mainland, Edinburgh detective and native islander Fin Macleod is dispatched to the Outer Hebrides to investigate, embarking at the same time on a voyage into his own troubled past.
As Fin reconnects with the people and places of his tortured childhood, the desolate but beautiful island and its ancient customs once again begin to assert their grip on his psyche. Every step toward solving the case brings Fin closer to a dangerous confrontation with the dark events of the past that shaped -- and nearly destroyed -- his life.
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.
He has won several literature awards in France, received the USA's Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 was awarded the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year award for Entry Island. Peter now lives in southwest France with his wife, writer Janice Hally.
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Audiobook details
Author:
Peter May
Narrator:
Peter Forbes
ISBN:
9781549173844
Length:
12 hours 20 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hachette Audio
Publication date:
June 5, 2018
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#8,999 Overall
Genre rank:
#1,463 in Mystery & Thriller
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