The blackhouse peter may review7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The story consists primarily of flashbacks to Fin Macleod's childhood intermingled with Fin's experiences on the island as he renews old relationships. His old friends and acquaintances are wary, at best, since he hasn't been back to the island in 20 years. The DCI in charge, Tom Smith, doesn't want his help or his expertise. ![]() His boss insists that he return to work and sends him off to the Isle of Lewis to investigate a murder there, since Fin was an investigating officer on the similar case that occurred in Edinburgh.įin is not exactly welcomed when he arrives in the village where he grew up. ![]() He has been taking some time away from his job as a police detective in Edinburgh because his son died a few weeks earlier and his relationship with his wife is not very good. When a grisly murder occurs on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland's Outer Hebrides that bears the hallmarks of the work of a similar killer on the Scottish mainland, Edinburgh detective and native islander Fin Macleod is dispatched to investigate, embarking at the same time on a voyage into his own troubled past.Īt the beginning of the story, the reader learns two things about Fin Macleod. Description from the dust jacket of my edition: ![]()
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