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The Chessmen

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30th December 2021

Price: £9.99

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781529419450

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THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERS
AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021

‘One of the best regarded crime series of recent years.’ Independent
‘No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel than Peter May.’ New York Journal of Books

PETER MAY: THE MAN WHO BROUGHT MURDER TO THE OUTER HEBRIDES

THE NEW START

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.

THE OLD FRIEND

This mission reunites him with Whistler Macaskill – a local poacher, Fin’s teenage intimate, and possessor of a long-buried secret.

THE FINAL CHAPTER

But when this reunion takes a violent, sinister turn and Fin puts together the fractured pieces of the past, he realizes that revealing the truth could destroy the future.

LOVED THE LEWIS TRILOGY? Read Peter May’s other Hebrides thrillers, COFFIN ROAD and I’LL KEEP YOU SAFE.
LOVE PETER MAY? Buy his latest frontlist thriller, THE NIGHT GATE

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Reviews

Mail on Sunday
A rip-roaring thriller . . . thoroughly enjoyable
Peter James, on Entry Island
A wonderfully complex book
Alex Gray
The Lewis Man shone like a bright star out of this year's book lists. Lyrical, empathetic and moving
Mark Billingham
He is a terrific writer doing something different
Sophie Hannah
From the first page I knew I was in safe hands. I knew I could trust this writer
Kate Mosse
Wonderfully compelling
Guardian
Western France - now May's own stamping ground - is as much a character in the book as the Hebrides were in his formidable Isle of Lewis sequence
New York Times
Peter May is a writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth
The Times
Instantly struck by the beauty of the descriptions of the wild island terrain as well as by the roundedness and complexity of the characterisations
Boyd Tonkin, on the Lewis trilogy, Independent
One of the best regarded crime series of recent years
Sunday Times
May's novels are strong on place and the wounds left by old relationships