The Lewis Man: AN INGENIOUS CRIME THRILLER ABOUT MEMORY AND MURDER (LEWIS TRILOGY 2)

The Male Caucasian Corpse - Marked By Several Horrific Stab Wounds - Is Initially Believed By Its Finders To Be Over Two-thousand Years Old. Until They Spot The Elvis Tattoo On His Right Arm. The Body, It Transpires, Is Not Evidence Of An Ancient Ritual Killing, But Of A Murder Committed During The Latter Half Of The Twentieth Century. Meanwhile, Fin Macleod Has Returned To The Island Of His Birth. Having Left His Wife, His Life In Edinburgh And His Career In The Police Force, The Former Detective Inspector Is Intent On Repairing Past Relationships And Restoring His Parents Derelict Croft. But When Dna Tests Flag A Familial Match Between The Bog Body And The Father Of Fin's Childhood Sweetheart, Marsaili Macdonald, Fin Finds His Homecoming More Turbulent Than Expected. Tormod Macdonald, Now An Elderly Man In The Grip Of Dementia, Had Always Claimed To Be An Only Child Without Close Family. The Male Caucasian Corpse -- Marked By Several Horrific Stab Wounds -- Is Initially Believed By Its Finders To Be Over Two-thousand Years Old. Until They Spot The Elvis Tattoo On His Right Arm. The Body, It Transpires, Is Not Evidence Of An Ancient Ritual Killing, But Of A Murder Committed During The Latter Half Of The Twentieth Century. Meanwhile, Fin Macleod Has Returned To The Island Of His Birth. Having Left His Wife, His Life In Edinburgh And His Career In The Police Force, The Former Detective Inspector Is Intent On Repairing Past Relationships And Restoring His Parents Derelict Croft. But When Dna Tests Flag A Familial Match Between The Bog Body And The Father Of Fin's Childhood Sweetheart, Marsaili Macdonald, Fin Finds His Homecoming More Turbulent Than Expected. Tormod Macdonald, Now An Elderly Man In The Grip Of Dementia, Had Always Claimed To Be An Only Child Without Close Family. Peter May. THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERS AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021 'One of the best regarded crime series of recent years.' Independent 'No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel than Peter May.' New York Journal of Books A MAN WITH NO NAME 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. A MAN WITH NO MEMORY But this islander, Tormod Macdonald - now an elderly man suffering from dementia - has always claimed to be an only child. A MAN WITH NO CHOICE When Tormod's family approach Fin Macleod for help, Fin feels duty-bound to solve the mystery. LOVED THE LEWIS MAN? Read book 3 in the Lewis trilogy, THE CHESSMEN LOVE PETER MAY? Buy his latest frontlist thriller, THE NIGHT GATE 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. But this islander, Tormod Macdonald - now an elderly man suffering from dementia - has always claimed to be an only child... (www.payot.ch) Fin Macleod returns to the outer Hebridean island of his youth to make amends and restore his parents' cottage before investigating a death involving family secrets and a sinister adversary.