In the acknowledgments, May (Blowback) reveals that he drew much of his inspiration from five years filming on the island. Detective Inspector Fin Macleod is sent from Edinburgh to investigate. A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith. The struggles of such multidimensional characters as Artair, Macleod’s boyhood friend, and Marsaili, the girl they both loved and Artair married, add depth. PETER MAY: THE MAN WHO BROUGHT MURDER TO THE OUTER HEBRIDES. Abundant local color-much of it physically and psychologically wrenching, like the islanders’ annual culling of seabirds, a primitive rite of passage-matches Macleod’s tormented emotional landscape. Back in Macleod’s home village of Crobost, first-person flashbacks gradually unveil contradictory episodes of horror and compassion in his youth, counterpointing the third-person account of the present-day murder case. While grieving over the accidental death of his only child, Fin investigates a grisly homicide nearly identical to a previous case in Edinburgh. Television dramatist May’s brilliant first in a trilogy set on the Gaelic-speaking Isle of Lewis, northernmost of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, introduces Fin Macleod, a Lewis native and Edinburgh CID detective sergeant.
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