The Lewis Man (Lewis Trilogy, #2)

by Peter May

A MAN WITH NO NAME. An unidentified corpse is recovered from a Lewis peat bog; the only clue to its identity being a DNA sibling match to a local farmer. A MAN WITH NO MEMORY. But this islander, Tormod Macdonald - now an elderly man suffering from dementia - has always claimed to be an only child. A MAN WITH NO CHOICE. When Tormod's family approach Fin Macleod for help, Fin feels duty-bound to solve the mystery.

• ISBN10: 0857382209
• ISBN13: 9780857382207
• Publish Date: 5 January 2012
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 13 March 2013
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Quercus Publishing
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 443
• Language: English

Reviews

[viking2917]

Peter May can write like nobody's business. The setting for The Lewis Man is, unsurprisingly, the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides. May's prose is a deft as a paintbrush and you'll feel the piercing wind, the startlingly bright sun and clouds, feel the sand of the freezing beaches under your feet.

His characters are amazing - Fin is the lead, who we first met in The Blackhouse, but I was most drawn to May's rendering of Tormod, an old man suffering from dementia, and his rendering captures what I think it must be like. really amazing.

And all the characters wrapped in a deftly plotted mystery involving a man buried in the peat and preserved like Tollund Man or the other peat men of history.

Even at 435 pages I raced through it on a Sunday.