![]() ![]() But here I stopped minding less than halfway through the narrative, and I’ll admit that it did provide for a clear line of distinction between past and present. The story is told in the third person when moving in the present and in the first person when revisiting Fin’s and his schoolmates’ past something I ordinarily don’t much care for and which almost threw me at the beginning of the book. May does an excellent job of bringing to life both the starkness of the Lewis landscape and nature and its dramatic coastline, and the inner demons haunting his protagonist (DI Fin Macleod, on secondment from Edinburgh CID because a recent murder on Lewis bears hallmark similarities to a case he’s working on in Edinburgh) and Fin’s former schoolmates, one of whom – a much-feared bully – turns out to be the victim of this latest murder. ![]() Book 1 of May’s Lewis Trilogy a darkly atmospheric tale of childhood ghosts rearing their ugly heads to bring down the lives of a group of former schoolmates some 30+ years later set on the northern end of the largest and northernmost of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides islands, the Isle of Lewis. ![]()
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