The Blackhouse: The Lewis Trilogy (The Lewis Trilogy, 1)
When a grisly murder occurs on the Isle of Lewis with the hallmarks of a killing he's investigating on the mainland, Edinburgh detective and native islander Fin MacLeod is dispatched to see if the two deaths are connected. His return after nearly two decades not only represents a police investigation, but a voyage into his troubled past. Every step in solving the murder takes him closer to a dangerous confrontation with the tragic events that shaped his life.
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Haunted by his past and forced to return to the island of his birth, Fin not looks at what his future may have been if he had stayed on the path well trodden. Well recommended and I am now moving on to the next part of the Lewis trilogy.
My parents gave me this book as a gift. I don’t normally read murder/detective novels so this was a change for me. It was much darker than my usual genre, and rather graphic in parts (the autopsy towards the beginning, and the chapter which describes the killing and processing of the gugas, for example) but it was very compelling reading with deeply-developed, likable (and dislikable) characters. I enjoyed the Scottish island setting and also the Gaelic content. I will definitely read the sequel, but might go for something a little more light-hearted before I do so!
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