The Black Loch

Set against the brooding landscape of the Hebrides, Peter May returns to the territory of his bestselling Lewis Trilogy, and his much-loved detective, Fin Macleod.

When the lifeless body of eighteen-year-old Caitlin is discovered on a desolate beach by the Black Loch, questions of murder and secrecy shroud the tight-knit community. It soon emerges that the young woman was in an illicit relationship with Fionnlagh Macleod, a married teacher at the Nicholson Institute where she was a student. Her lover becomes the prime suspect in the murder investigation. He is also Fin's son.

Despite leaving the island a decade earlier to escape the haunting memories of his past, Fin is compelled to return to Lewis in a desperate attempt, despite the evidence, to clear his troubled son's name. He will discover that the crime is connected to his own teenage years, in a tragic salmon fishing accident that had led to two deaths, and in the growth of a multi-billion pound industry on the island.

The Black Loch takes us on a journey through family ties, hidden relationships and unforgiving landscapes, where suspense, violent revenge and revelation converge in the shadow of the Black Loch.

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400 pages

Average rating: 7.2

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CarolM
Mar 29, 2025
8/10 stars
This is a fourth book that adds on to the Lewis trilogy that May wrote some few years back but it can stand alone. There is emotion and tension from the beginning and the characters though already developed in the previous books still have room to develop as you begin to see the island and its inhabitants through their eyes. A gripping story and May builds it up by giving much history to the characters thus enhancing your relationship with them and the story. A really good read. I am thinking I may reread the trilogy now.

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