# The Blackhouse

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- Book: [The Blackhouse](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-may/the-blackhouse) ([The Blackhouse.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-may/the-blackhouse.md))
- Authors: [Peter May](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-may)
- Publisher: riverrun
- ISBN: 978-18-4916-386-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2011-09-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

BOOK ONE IN THE MILLION-SELLING LEWIS TRILOGY. A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. A RICHARD & JUDY PICK. WINNER OF THE USA'S BARRY AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR. PETER MAY: THE MAN WHO BROUGHT MURDER TO THE OUTER HEBRIDES 'One of the best regarded crime series of recent years' Independent A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith. A MURDER Detective Inspector Fin Macleod is sent from Edinburgh to investigate. For Lewis-born Macleod, the case represents a journey both home and into his past. A SECRET Something lurks within the close-knit island community. Something sinister. A TRAP As Fin investigates, old skeletons begin to surface, and soon he, the hunter, becomes the hunted. LOVED THE BLACKHOUSE? Read book 2 in the Lewis trilogy, THE LEWIS MAN LOVE PETER MAY? Buy his latest frontlist thriller, A SILENT DEATH