by Peter May · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9780857382252
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«The Chessmen» is Peter May's crime novel, published by Quercus in 2013 (400 pages, in English).
Fin Macleod, head of security at a private estate on the Isle of Lewis, investigates game poaching in the area. The investigation brings him back together with Whistler Macaskill, an old friend from their teenage years and a poacher who harbors a buried secret. The reunion takes a violent turn, and Fin realizes that piecing together the past can destroy the future.
Third and final installment of the Lewis trilogy (The Lewis Trilogy), set on the Scottish island of Lewis.
For fans of the Lewis trilogy who want to complete the series.
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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.
