Title: The Chessmen
Description: Ex-Detective Inspector Fin McLeod discovers a light aircraft at the bottom of a spontaneously drained loch while investigating illegal activity on the estate of a poacher and former childhood friend.

Sequel to: The Lewis man.

Living again of the Isle of Lewis, ex-Detective Inspector Fin McLeod is working as a security officer for a local landowner. While investigating illegal activity on the estate Fin encounters the elusive poacher and former childhood friend Whistler Macaskill. They witness a freak natural phenomenon-- a 'Bog Burst'-- which spontaneously drains a loch of its water, revealing a mud-encased light aircraft. Inside is the body of Roddy Mackenzie, a friend whose flight disappeared more than seventeen years before. Fin is unprepared for how the truth about the past will alter the course of the future.
Subjects: Fin Macleod (Fictitious character), Skönlitteratur, Fiction, Kriminalroman, Private investigators, Poaching, Investigation, Islands, Murder, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Fiction, crime, Scotland, fiction
Places: Scotland, Hebrides (Scotland), Lewis with Harris Island (Scotland)