![]() ![]() The sound of Gaelic, the smell of peat fires and the sight of old friends are enough to stir up memories: “He felt like a ghost haunting his own past, walking the streets of his childhood.” Macleod promptly slips into uneasy recollections of everything and everyone he thought he’d left behind, safely dead and buried. ![]() Macleod thought he’d escaped the island for good, but now he’s been dispatched to his home village of Crobost to investigate a gruesome murder that resembles another case in Edinburgh. The setting is the windswept terrain of the Isle of Lewis, the northernmost of the Outer Hebrides, “a brooding landscape that in a moment of sunlight could be unexpectedly transformed.” Not a pretty place to be romanticized, given its foul weather, stagnant economy, rampant alcoholism and high suicide rate, but a “godforsaken bloody place” that deserves respect and even awe. ![]() Peter May is a writer I’d follow to the ends of the earth - which is where he takes us in THE BLACKHOUSE (Silver Oak, $24.95), the first novel in a projected trilogy featuring Detective Sergeant Finlay (Fin) Macleod of the Edinburgh police force. ![]()
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