Coffin Road is on the Isle of Harris where a man washes up on the shore at death’s door only to find out he has lost his memory. He does not know where it will lead him, but filled with dread, fear and uncertainty he knows he must follow it. This intriguing mystery unfolds gradually as Neal and the police try to find out who he is, what he’s really doing on Harris and whether he killed the unknown man found on the Flannan Isles. There are secrets hiding in every crook and cranny of this book, and May orchestrates their revelations into a perfect flow of need to know.

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But then, Glen and Jean are nothing if not strange, so perhaps that extends to their domestic idiolect. Bees are essential effectively to the long-term survival of the human race, because they pollinate about 70% of the root vegetables, the crops that we eat and need to survive. As more comes to light to this aspect of the story, you quickly become tangled in a web of deceit that is so much larger than one person leaving their family behind. Reading his Lewis trilogy first ensured I would read more of his work, and whilst nothing has quite lived up to the first Lewis book, I’ve still had fun with everything he’s written.

This surprised me as he has three series under his belt, a number of standalone novels and has been involved in writing for television in the UK. Coffin Road sits around the midline in terms of where it sits on my list of favourite Peter May books.

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All'io narrante di Neal, infatti, si alternano capitoli in terza persona in cui si muovono gli altri (non molti) personaggi. It is at this point (a quarter of the way through the book) that the third person narrative takes over as we meet Karen Fleming, a headstrong and belligerent seventeen-year-old living in a suburb of Edinburgh, impressively bright but rebelling against her mother after her fathers suicide two years previously.DS George Gunn knows that a bludgeoned corpse has been discovered on a remote rock twenty miles offshore. Well, I never felt that feeling of having a hard time putting the book down, like I had before when I read some of May's books. But when the other person has lost their memory and doesn’t know you, then in a way you’ve totally lost touch with them and you don’t know them anymore either. Margaret Campbell are tracking the murderer of a government scientist who was found burned to death in a park in Beijing.

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But in the interests of fairness, I’ll add a quote about the appeal of the place rather than the rainstorms I complained about earlier. My granddaughter is a big fan of his, and I have borrowed and read the 3 books of his in ‘The Lewis Trilogy’ plus ‘Entry Island’.His utility bill tells him so, and informs him that he resides at Dune Cottage, Luskentyre on the Isle of Harris. To read more about the site or if you want a graphic to link to us, see the about page for more details. My one reservation is Jean’s odd voice, which feels too 1950s-prim – an upper-middle-class person’s slightly dated idea of how lower-middle-class people speak. Men Peter Mays underbara miljöbeskrivningar och hans sätt att skriva så inlevelsefullt gör boken läsvärd!