When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BBC, he quit journalism and during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland's most successful television dramatists. He was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. Biography: Peter May was born and raised in Scotland.Peter now lives in South-West France with his wife, writer Janice Hally.

He has also 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. 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.In 2021, he was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library Award. Peter May was born and raised in Scotland. LOVE PETER MAY? Buy his latest frontlist thriller, THE NIGHT GATE LOVED THE BLACKHOUSE? Read book 2 in the Lewis trilogy, THE LEWIS MAN Something sinister.Īs Fin investigates, old skeletons begin to surface, and soon he, the hunter, becomes the hunted. Something lurks within the close-knit island community.

For Lewis-born Macleod, the case represents a journey both home and into his past. PETER MAY: THE MAN WHO BROUGHT MURDER TO THE OUTER HEBRIDESĪ brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith.ĭetective Inspector Fin Macleod is sent from Edinburgh to investigate.

'No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel than Peter May.' New York Journal of Books 'One of the best regarded crime series of recent years.' Independent Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERSĪWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021

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