Coffin Road: An utterly gripping crime thriller from the author of The China Thrillers

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Peter May has become well recognized for his work both as a novelist and in film and television. His very first award was the Fraser Award in 1973 for being the Scottish Young Journalist of the Year. In 1996, Machair was nominated for the Best Drama Serial Award at the 17th International Celtic Film and Television Festival. Another man lies dead from a head bashing in a small chapel at a lighthouse on Eilean Mor. Detective Sergeant George Gunn is sent from Stornoway on Isle of Lewis to investigate who the dead man is and what he was doing on the uninhabited island and who would want him dead. No small task with no ID on the murder victim. His only lead is the identification of a man seen fleeing the island by a tourist boat captain. In questa storia i misteri e le domande, a cui non seguono risposte adeguate, si susseguono incessantemente, creando una bella atmosfera fatta di suspense, rivelazioni e colpi di scena a più livelli.

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I have just finished The Lewis Trilogy, based upon your recommendation. It was such a pleasant surprise. I listened to the audiobooks, and Peter Forbes narration was stunning. I am ready to begin the Enzo series now, and I fully expect to be on the edge of my seat once again. Thanks for highlighting this in your monthly newsletter! Reply

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That breathless realisation banishes all else. The cold, the taste of salt, the acid still burning all the way up from my stomach. How can I not know who I am? A temporary confusion, surely? But the longer I stand here, with the wind whistling around my ears, shivering almost beyond control, feeling the pain and the cold and the consternation, I realise that the only sense that has not returned to me is my sense of self. As if I inhabit the body of a stranger, in whose uncharted waters I have been washed up in blind ignorance.” Chi è Neal? Come mai non ricorda nulla del suo passato da quando si è riavuto su una spiaggia sulla quale la burrasca lo ha scaraventato? Cosa è successo prima? Chi sono le persone che mostrano di conoscerlo tanto bene? Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. I had expected three plotlines. The mystery of the lighthouse keepers that disappeared 100 years ago, the plotline of the man without a memory and of Karen, who refuses to accept that her father has committed suicide. The first one was moot, so it's only the present day voices. The man without the memory washes up on the beach and does not have the first clue of who he is. When a man is found killed on a remote island, the man without memory thinks he might have killed him. But the story itself came from something that I’d had in my head for several years in fact. And I’d just been trying to find a way of telling the story, to do justice to the idea that I had. And the idea I had, I suppose it’s an ecological thing, it’s about bees. Which doesn’t sound like a very promising subject. Bees are essential effectively to the long-term survival of the human race, because they pollinate about 70% of the root vegetables, the crops that we eat and need to survive. And they’re dying off at an enormous rate. Basically the major problem is a particular type of pesticide which is being peddled by several of the world’s biggest agrochem producers, and who are in total denial about it.

Coffin Road By Peter May | Used | 9781784293130 - Wob Coffin Road By Peter May | Used | 9781784293130 - Wob

The third and final chapter of this series, The Chessmen, takes Fin on an investigation to solve an illegal game-hunting crime that reunites him with a face of his past, Whistler Macaskill, and leads him to discover pieces of the past that could destroy the future. The Enzo Files A man stands bewildered on a deserted beach on the Hebridean Isle of Harris. He cannot remember who he is. The only clue to his identity is a folded map of a path named the Coffin Road. He does not know where this search will take him.When we think of Peter May, one of our first thoughts is of the gorgeous Hebridean landscapes that he brings to life in many of his stories. Almost a character in itself, the whipping winds and remote rolling land lend his mysteries a particularly haunting and intriguing atmosphere. And so you can imagine our excitement when we heard that for his next book – Coffin Road - Peter would be returning to the Isle of Harris in the Hebrides to set his standalone mystery. Peter May is on a roll ... [Coffin Road] is a clever, twisty eco-thriller in the mode of Le Carré's The Constant Gardener. Location is always important for me. I always regard the location of the book as being like one of the characters. When I wrote the China series, China was the third character. Or sometimes it was Beijing, or sometimes it was Shanghai, wherever it was set, that setting would dominate and dictate the shape of the story in lots of ways. So it’s exactly like that for the islands as well. They are absolutely essential to me in placing a story and shaping a story, because the kind of stories that I’ve written which are set on the islands, you couldn’t really set them on the mainland. They are very specific to those locations. So evoking the location, making that real and a living thing for the reader is absolutely essential for me. Have read The Lewis Trilogy, The Enzo Files, and just finished the First of he China Books…The research in each book is outstanding. I have enjoyed each book and look forward to reading all of Peter May’s books. Reply