Peter May
1) The chessmen
Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
383 p. : ill. (maps) ; 24 cm.
Description
Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island.
Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Fin Macleod returns to the outer Hebridean island of his youth to make amends and restore his parents' cottage before investigating a death involving family secrets and a sinister adversary.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poison Pen
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
349 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
The media and the terror-stricken public are demanding the arrest of the Beijing Ripper and Li Yan, the head of Beijing's serious crime squad, has been put in the spotlight. American pathologist Margaret Campbell is invited to perform an autopsy on one of the victims and her results send shockwaves through the investigation. Then Li begins receiving personal letters from the killer, and his life and career start falling apart.
4) Blowback
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
On a tiny island off the coast of Brittany in France, Enzo must confront the hostility of locals who have no desire to see a cold-case murder back in the headlines.
5) Freeze frame
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
286 p. ; 23 cm.
6) The runner
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010, c2003
Physical Desc
336 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
In this fifth China Thriller, Chinese detective Li Yan and American pathologist Margaret Campbell are back in Beijing confronting a sinister sequence of murders which threatens to destroy the future of international athletics.
Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 1
Publisher
SilverOak
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
357 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Description
When a grisly murder occurs on a Scottish island, Edinburgh detective Fin Macleod must confront his past if he is ever going to discover if the killing has a connection to another one that took place on the mainland.
Author
Publisher
riverrun
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
486 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In a sleepy French village, the body of a man shot through the head is disinterred by the roots of a fallen tree. A week later a famous art critic is viciously murdered in a nearby house. The deaths occurred more than seventy years apart. Asked by a colleague to inspect the site of the former, forensics expert Enzo Macleod quickly finds himself embroiled in the investigation of the latter. Two extraordinary narratives are set in train--one historical,...
9) Coffin road
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, a man washes up on a deserted beach with no knowledge of who he is or how he got there, while homicide detective George Gunn makes the ocean crossing to a remote lighthouse on a rock in the North Atlantic to investigate a brutal murder.
10) The killing room
Author
Series
China novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
viii, 340 p. ; 22 cm.
11) Blacklight blue
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Beginning an investigation into a third cold case described in a book by Parisian journalist Roger Raffin, Scottish scholar and amateur detective Enzo MacLeod finds himself confronting a diagnosis of a terminal illness and attacks by someone out to frame him for murder.
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xii, 366 pages : illustration, map ; 24 cm
Description
A thriller that alternates between the glamorous fashion world of Paris and the rugged beauty of the Isle of Harris in the Scottish Hebrides. When a fabric entrepreneur is killed in a car explosion in Paris, Niamh, his wife and business partner, becomes the prime suspect. The Parisian police continue to hound her when she returns to Harris to bury her husband's remains. After an attempt is made on her life, Niamh has to wonder if the motive is simply...
13) A winter grave
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 24 cm
Description
When the body of missing investigative reporter George Younger is discovered on a mountain-top near the Highland village of Kinlochleven, veteran Glasgow detective Cameron Brodie volunteers to investigate the murder, but has more than the case on his agenda.
14) A silent death
Author
Publisher
Riverrun, an imprint of Quercus Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Spain, 2020. When ex-pat fugitive Jack Cleland watches his girlfriend die, gunned down in a pursuit involving officer Cristina Sanchez Pradell, he promises to exact his revenge by destroying the policewoman. Cristina's aunt Ana has been deaf-blind for the entirety of her adult life: the victim of a rare condition named Usher Syndrome. Ana is the centre of Cristina's world, and of Cleland's cruel plan. John Mackenzie, an ingenious yet irascible Glaswegian...
15) Runaway
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A failed Glasgow musician looks back on the half century that has passed since he convinced four friends to run away with him as ambitious teens and is haunted by the memory of a traumatizing event. Meanwhile a murderer in London embarks on a nightmarish spree.
16) Virtually dead
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Staggering under the grief and financial burden left by his recently deceased wife, crime-scene photographer Michael Kapinsky enters a virtual world called Second Life to participate in a new kind of group therapy, but once there, his persona, Chas Chesnokov, uncovers a series of killings and a financial scam that is netting a murderer millions of dollars.
Author
Series
China novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 22 cm.