Entry Island: An edge-of-your-seat thriller you won't soon forget

When Detective Sime Mackenzie Is Sent From Montreal To Investigate A Murder On A Remote Island 850 Miles Away, He Leaves Behind Him A Life Of Sleeplessness And Regret. But What Had Initially Seemed An Open-and-shut Case Takes On A Disturbing Dimension When He Meets The Prime Suspect, The Victim's Wife, And Is Convinced That He Knows Her - Even Though They Have Never Met. And When His Insomnia Becomes Punctuated By Dreams Of A Distant Scottish Past In Another Century, This Murder In The Gulf Of St. Lawrence Leads Him Down A Path He Could Never Have Foreseen, Forcing Him To Face A Conflict Between His Professional Duty And His Personal Destiny. Hardback -when Detective Sime Mackenzie Boards A Light Aircraft At Montreal's St. Hubert Airfield, He Does So Without Looking Back. For Sime, The 850-mile Journey Ahead Represents An Opportunity To Escape The Bitter Blend Of Loneliness And Regret That Has Come To Characterise His Life In The City. Travelling As Part Of An Eight-officer Investigation Team, Sime's Destination Lies In The Gulf Of St. Lawrence. Only Two Kilometres Wide And Three Long, Entry Island Is Home To A Population Of Around 130 Inhabitants -- The Wealthiest Of Which Has Just Been Discovered Murdered In His Home. The Investigation Itself Appears Little More Than A Formality. The Evidence Points To A Crime Of Passion: The Victim's Wife The Vengeful Culprit. But For Sime The Investigation Is Turned On Its Head When He Comes Face To Face With The Prime Suspect, And Is Convinced That He Knows Her -- Even Though They Have Never Met. Haunted By This Certainty His Insomnia Becomes Punctuated By Dreams Of A Distant Past On A Scottish Island 3,000 Miles Away. Dreams In Which The Widow Plays A Leading Role. Sime's Conviction Becomes An Obsession. And In Spite Of Mounting Evidence Of Her Guilt He Finds Himself Convinced Of Her Innocence, Leading To A Conflict Between The Professonal Duty He Must Fulfil, And The Personal Destiny That Awaits Him. Detective Sime Mackenzie Is Haunted By The Feeling He Knows The Woman Named As Murder Suspect -- Despite The Fact They Have Never Met. And When He Starts Dreaming Of A Scottish Past In Another Century, This Murder Leads Him Down A Path That Will Force Him To Face A Conflict Between Professional Duty And Personal Destiny. By Peter May. Novel. THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY, THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERS AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021 'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.' Undiscovered Scotland 'No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel than Peter May.' New York Journal of Books A detective is haunted by the feeling he knows his murder suspect - despite the fact they have never met. IF YOU FLEE FATE... When Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island, 850 miles from the Canadian mainland, he leaves behind him a life of sleeplessness and regret. FATE WILL FIND YOU... But what had initially seemed an open-and-shut case takes on a disturbing dimension when he meets the prime suspect, the victim's wife, and is convinced that he knows her - even though they have never met. And when his insomnia becomes punctuated by dreams of a distant Scottish past in another century, this murder in the Gulf of St. Lawrence leads him down a path he could never have foreseen, forcing him to face a conflict between his professional duty and his personal destiny. LOVED ENTRY ISLAND? Read the first book in Peter May's acclaimed China thrillers series, THE FIREMAKER LOVE PETER MAY? Buy his new thriller, THE NIGHT GATE Only two kilometers wide and three long, Entry Island is home to a population of just more than 100 inhabitants, the wealthiest of whom has just been discovered murdered in his home. Covered in her husband's blood, the dead man's melancholy wife spins a tale for the police about a masked intruder armed with a knife. The investigation appears to be little more than a formality--the evidence points to a crime of passion by the wife. But homicide detective Sime Mackenzie is electrified by the widow during his interview, convinced that he has met her before, even though this is clearly impossible. Haunted by this strange certainty, Sime's insomnia is punctuated by vivid, hallucinatory dreams of a distant past on a Scottish island 3,000 miles away, dreams in which he and the widow play leading roles. Sime's conviction soon becomes an obsession. And despite mounting evidence of the woman's guilt, he finds himself convinced of her innocence, leading to a conflict between the professional duty he must fulfill and the personal destiny he is increasingly sure awaits him. When Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island, 850 miles from the Canadian mainland, he leaves behind him a life of sleeplessness and regret. But what had initially seemed an open-and-shut case takes on a disturbing dimension when he meets the prime suspect, the victim's wife, and is convinced that he knows her - even though they have never met. And when Sime's insomnia becomes punctuated by dreams of a distant Scottish past in another century, this murder in the Gulf of St Lawrence leads him down a path the could never have foreseen, forcing him to face a conflict between his professional duty and his personal destiny. (4e couv.) Etterforsker Sime Mackenzie går om bord på flyet i Montreal uten å se seg tilbake. For Sime betyr den lange flyreisen en gyllen mulighet til å komme vekk fra det ensomme og triste livet i byen. Sime reiser som en del av en etterforskningsgruppe som er på vei til St. Lawrence gulfen. Entry Island er en liten øy med bare 130 innbyggere, og den rikeste beboeren på øya er funnet myrdet i sitt eget hjem. Undersøkelsene på åstedet virker som en ren formalitet, og bevisene peker i retning av offerets kone. Men etterforskningen blir snudd på hodet for Sime når han møter den hovedmistenkte kvinnen. Han er overbevist om at han kjenner henne, selv om han aldri har truffet henne før