by Peter May · riverrun · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781849163866
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«The Blackhouse» is the crime novel by Peter May, published by riverrun in hardcover (502 pages, in English).
A murder on the remote Scottish island of Lewis echoes a crime in Edinburgh. Detective Fin Macleod, born there, returns to investigate and confronts his past. As he reconnects with the island and its traditions, he uncovers dark community secrets, and the hunter becomes the hunted.
It is the first volume in The Lewis Trilogy series.
For thriller readers seeking a police investigation with a strong presence of the Scottish landscape and the tensions of a closed community.
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Peter May is a Scottish television screenwriter, novelist, and crime writer. He is the recipient of writing awards in Europe and America. The Blackhouse won the U.S. Barry Award for Crime Novel of the Year and the national literature award in France, the Cezam Prix Litteraire. The Lewis Man won the French daily newspaper Le Télégramme's 10,000-euro Grand Prix des Lecteurs. In 2014, Entry Island won both the Deanston's Scottish Crime Novel of the Year and the UK's ITV Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year Award. May's books have sold more than twelve million copies worldwide. In 2025 May was awarded France's prestigious Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere. France's premier prize for crime fiction has been in existence since 1948 and previous winners include John le Carré, Patricia Highsmith and PD James.
