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For Lewis-born Macleod, the case represents a journey both home and into his past. An unidentified corpse is recovered from a Lewis peat bog; the only clue to its identity being a DNA sibling match to a local farmer. TITLES: Peter May, "The Blackhouse" + "The Lewis Man" + "The Chessmen" The outer Hebrides plays host to a series of brutal killings in the Lewis Trilogy. A body is recovered from a peat bog on the Isle of Lewis. But this islander; Tormod Macdonald - now an elderly man suffering from dementia - has always claimed to be an only child. For Lewis-born Macleod; the case represents a journey both home and into his past. The body, it transpires, is not evidence of an ancient ritual killing, but of a murder committed during the latter half of the 20th century.
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Fred Williams
I'll be going back to the Isle of Lewis. Beautifully written and evoking life on a remote Scottish island, while deftly handling a multi-stranded murder mystery that kept me turning pages and left me wanting more after the last one was turned.