by Peter May · Tapa dura · ISBN 9780857382238
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«The Chessmen» is Peter May's crime novel, published by Quercus in hardcover, in English.
Fin McLeod, a former police officer, works as head of security on a private estate on the Isle of Lewis. While investigating a spate of poaching, he is reunited with Whistler Macaskill, an old childhood friend who harbors a secret. The tension between them erupts and Fin realizes that revealing the truth could destroy his future.
Third installment in the Lewis trilogy, following «The Blackhouse» and «The Lewis Man». Winner of the Prix Polar International and finalist for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year.
For lovers of Scottish crime fiction and rural thrillers with secrets from the past.
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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.
