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The Chessmen

The explosive finale in the million-selling series (The Lewis Thrillers Book 3)

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The Chessmen

Von: Peter May
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 Marilyn Stasio in The New York Times raved: "Peter May is a writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth." Among the many honors received, The Blackhouse, the first novel in May's acclaimed Lewis trilogy, won the Barry and Crime Thriller Hound awards.

In The Lewis Man, the second book of the trilogy, Fin Macleod has returned to the Isle of Lewis, the storm-tossed, wind-scoured outer Hebridean island where he was born and raised. Having left behind his adult life in Edinburgh--including his wife and his career in the police force--the former Detective Inspector is intent on repairing past relationships and restoring his parents' derelict cottage. His plans are interrupted when an unidentified corpse is recovered from a Lewis peat bog. The only clue to its identity is a DNA match to a local farmer, the now-senile Tormod Macdonald--the father of Fin's childhood sweetheart, Marsaili--a man who has claimed throughout his life to be an only child, practically an orphan. Reluctantly drawn into the investigation, Fin uncovers deep family secrets even as he draws closer to the killer who wishes to keep them hidden.

Already an international bestseller and winner of numerous awards, including France's Prix des Lecteurs du Telegramme, The Lewis Man has the lyrical verve of Ian Rankin and the gutsy risk-taking of Benjamin Black. As fascinating and forbidding as the Hebridean landscape, the book (according to The Times) "throbs with past and present passions, jealousies, suspicions and regrets; the emotional secrets of the bleak island are even deeper than its peat bog."
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A rip-roaring thriller . . . thoroughly enjoyable
A wonderfully complex book (Peter James, on Entry Island)
The Lewis Man shone like a bright star out of this year's book lists. Lyrical, empathetic and moving (Alex Gray)
He is a terrific writer doing something different (Mark Billingham)
From the first page I knew I was in safe hands. I knew I could trust this writer (Sophie Hannah)
Wonderfully compelling (Kate Mosse)
Western France - now May's own stamping ground - is as much a character in the book as the Hebrides were in his formidable Isle of Lewis sequence
Peter May is a writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth
Instantly struck by the beauty of the descriptions of the wild island terrain as well as by the roundedness and complexity of the characterisations
One of the best regarded crime series of recent years (Boyd Tonkin, on the Lewis trilogy)
May's novels are strong on place and the wounds left by old relationships
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Ich glaube ja, dass ein Großteil der Reizes schottischer Literatur darauf basiert, dass der Leser a) schonmal da war oder b) gerne dahin möchte. So ist es zumindest bei mir- beides. Abgesehen von den meiner Ansicht nach wenig originellen aber sehr schönen Landschaftsbeschreibungen und einem guten Gefühl für die Insel-Atmosphäre bietet Peter May's Lewis-Trilogie solide Fastfood-Krimi-Unterhaltung. Und Peter Forbes kann es so lesen, dass auch ich es verstehe.

Man muss da(bei) gewesen sein ...

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Wonderful and colorful description of the landscape and the special characters of the outer Hebrides - captivating story, very touching

Wonderful characters

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aber der Sprecher ist kaum auszuhalten und irgendwie konnte ich der Geschichte einfach nicht folgen

Ich mag Schottland...

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