The blackhouse
By: Peter May
Series: The Lewis Trilogy -- 01
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9781849163866; 9781782062806
Subjects: Social life and customs; Murder; Police; Investigation; Fin MacLeod (Fictitious character); Manners and customs; Fiction
Description: The Isle of Lewis is the most remote, harshly beautiful place in Scotland, where the difficulty of existence seems outweighed only by people's fear of God. But older, pagan values lurk beneath the veneer of faith, the primal yearning for blood and revenge. When a brutal murder on the island bears the hallmarks of a similar slaying in Edinburgh, police detective Fin Macleod is dispatched north to investigate. But since he himself was raised on Lewis, the investigation also represents a journey home and into his past.