![]() A murder has happened on the Isle of Lewis in The Outer Hebrides of Scotland in the very town Fin was from, Crobost. ![]() ![]() Easy to forget that as a teenager nothing had seemed more important to him than leaving.”ĭetective Fin Macleod is sent back to the place where he was bred, born, burnished, and raised as an orphan. ![]() How easy it was now to ignore the fact that he had spent most of his adult life avoiding just that. Back to a place where life had once seemed simple. “Knew, too, that it wasn’t just Mona he wanted to run away from. Peter May has crafted a page-turning murder mystery that explores the darkness in our souls, and just how difficult it is to escape the past. The Blackhouse is a crime novel of rare power and vision. For Fin the hunt recalls a horrific tragedy, which after all this time may have begun to demand another sacrifice. But since he himself was raised on Lewis, the investigation also represents a journey home and into his past.Įach year the island's men perform the hunting of the gugas, a savage custom no longer necessary for survival, but which they cling to even more fiercely in the face of the demands of modern morality. When a brutal murder on the island bears the hallmarks of a similar slaying in Edinburgh, police detective Fin Macleod is dispatched north to investigate. But older, pagan values lurk beneath the veneer of faith, the primal yearning for blood and revenge. The Isle of Lewis is the most remote, harshly beautiful place in Scotland, where the difficulty of existence seems outweighed only by people's fear of God. ![]()
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