Peter May
Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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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.
3) The chessmen
Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ex-Detective Inspector Fin McLeod discovers a light aircraft at the bottom of a spontaneously drained loch while investigating illegal activity on the estate of a poacher and former childhood friend.
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 7
Publisher
riverrun
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Enzo's investigations reveal an unexpected link between two murders—the Mona Lisa.
5) Blowback
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
6) Cast iron
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 6
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
©2017
Language
English
Description
Forensic expert Enzo Macleod investigates after a murder victims remains are exposed in a lake during a summer heat wave and inadvertently discovers a mistake that could endanger his family, in the final novel of the series, following Blowback.
7) Freeze frame
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Author
Series
China novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A body is recovered from a peat bog on the Isle of Lewis. The male Caucasian corpse is initially believed by its finders to be over 2000 years old, until they spot the Elvis tattoo on his right arm.
An unidentified corpse is recovered from a Lewis peat bog; the only clue to its identity being a DNA sibling match to a local farmer. But this islander, Tormod Macdonald - now an elderly man suffering from dementia - has always claimed to be an only child....
10) Entry Island
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When the wealthiest inhabitant of a small, isolated island community in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is murdered, with his wife as the prime suspect, homicide detective Sime Mackenzie becomes convinced of her innocence in spite of mounting evidence against her.
11) The runner
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
In this fifth China Thriller, Chinese detective Li Yan and American pathologist Margaret Campbell are back in Beijing confronting a sinister sequence of murders which threatens to destroy the future of international athletics.
12) The critic
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Gil Petty, the world's leading wine critic, vanishes during a tasting tour of the wine region of Gaillac. Scottish exile and former forensics expert Enzo Macleod takes on the cold case.
13) The killing room
Author
Series
China novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
14) Freeze frame
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Forensics expert Enzo Macleod heads to a tiny island off the coast of Brittany to solve a decades-old murder and encounters hostility from the locals, a suspect who has already been acquited of the killing, and a crime scene frozen in time.
15) The runner
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
In this fifth China Thriller, Chinese detective Li Yan and American pathologist Margaret Campbell are back in Beijing confronting a sinister sequence of murders which threatens to destroy the future of international athletics.
18) A winter grave
Author
Publisher
riverrun
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When the body of missing investigative reporter George Younger is discovered on a mountain-top near the Highland village of Kinlochleven, veteran Glasgow detective Cameron Brodie volunteers to investigate the murder, but has more than the case on his agenda.
"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...
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A classic early novel from Peter May situated among the political intrigue of Brussels, Belgium, in 1979--now available in the United States. "Peter May is a writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth." --Marilyn Stasio, New York Times. There are two men on their way to Brussels from the UK: Neil Bannerman, an iconoclastic journalist for Scotland's Daily Standard whose irate editor wants him out of the way, and Kale--a professional assassin. Expecting...
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A thriller that alternates between the glamorous fashion world of Paris and the rugged beauty of the Isle of Harris in the Scottish Hebrides. When a fabric entrepreneur is killed in a car explosion in Paris, Niamh, his wife and business partner, becomes the prime suspect. The Parisian police continue to hound her when she returns to Harris to bury her husband's remains. After an attempt is made on her life, Niamh has to wonder if the motive is simply...