The Chessmen

The third and final part of the internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy.

Zusatztext May's novels are strong on place and the wounds left by old relationships Informationen zum Autor Peter May was born and raised in Scotland. He was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BCC, he quit journalism and during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland's most successful television dramatists. He created three prime-time drama series, presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland as script editor and producer, and worked on more than 1,000 episodes of ratings-topping drama before deciding to leave television to return to his first love, writing novels. He has won several literature awards in France, received the USA's Barry Award for The Blackhouse , the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 was awarded the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year award for Entry Island . Peter now lives in South-West France with his wife, writer Janice Hally. Klappentext The final book in the crime trilogy set on the Isle of Lewis, which began with "The Blackhouse" and continued with "The Lewis Man". Fin Macleod investigates illegal game-hunting taking place on the island, and reunites with an old friend from his teens, poacher Whistler Macaskill. But when this reunion takes a sinister turn and Fin puts together the fractured pieces of the past, he realises that revealing the truth could destroy the future. The third and final part of the internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy. Zusammenfassung The third and final part of the internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy.

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The third and final part of the internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy.

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Peter May was born and raised in Scotland. He was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BCC, he quit journalism and during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland's most successful television dramatists. He created three prime-time drama series, presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland as script editor and producer, and worked on more than 1,000 episodes of ratings-topping drama before deciding to leave television to return to his first love, writing novels.

He has won several literature awards in France, received the USA's Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 was awarded the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year award for Entry Island. Peter now lives in South-West France with his wife, writer Janice Hally.

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The final book in the crime trilogy set on the Isle of Lewis, which began with "The Blackhouse" and continued with "The Lewis Man". Fin Macleod investigates illegal game-hunting taking place on the island, and reunites with an old friend from his teens, poacher Whistler Macaskill. But when this reunion takes a sinister turn and Fin puts together the fractured pieces of the past, he realises that revealing the truth could destroy the future.

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The third and final part of the internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy.