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Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a grisly murder occurs on the Isle of Lewis that bears similarities to a brutal killing on the mainland, Edinburgh detective and native islander Fin Macleod is dispatched to the Outer Hebrides to investigate, embarking at the same time on a voyage into his own troubled past. As Fin reconnects with the people and places of his tortured childhood, the desolate but beautiful island and its ancient customs once again begin to assert their grip on...
Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Quercus
Language
English
Formats
Description
A perfectly preserved body is recovered from a peat bog on the Isle of Lewis. 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...
3) The chessmen
Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now permanently resettled on the island of his birth in the Outer Hebrides, ex-Detective Inspector Fin Macleod 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, and bandmate, Whistler Macaskill. When Fin catches up with Whistler among the windswept hills of the estate, the two witness a freak natural phenomenon -- a bog burst --...
4) Lockdown
Author
Publisher
Riverrun
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 399 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Written over fifteen years ago, this prescient, suspenseful thriller is set against a backdrop of a capital city in quarantine, and explores human experience in the grip of a killer virus. 'They said that twenty-five percent of the population would catch the flu. Between seventy and eighty percent of them would die. He had been directly exposed to it, and the odds weren't good.' A city in quarantine. London, the epicenter of a global pandemic, is...
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xii, 366 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Friends since childhood, and lovers and business partners as adults, Niamh and Ruairidh are owners of a small Hebridean company, Ranish Tweed, that weaves its own very special version of Harris Tweed. Although it's a small company, their fabrics have become internationally sought-after as a niche brand in the world of fashion and haute couture. But the threads of their relationship are beginning to fray. As they prepare for an important showing at...
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