Island of the Dead, Peter May
Island of the Dead, Peter May
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Island of the Dead
the brand new thriller from the internationally bestselling master of crime

Author: Peter May

Narrator: Peter Forbes

Unabridged: TBD

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: riverrun

Published: 01/14/2027

Synopsis

On a weather‑beaten rock forty miles west of the Hebrides, they still call Skarav 'Island of the Dead' - a place of sheer cliffs, vanished communities and secrets buried as deep as the graves in its thin soil.

When Ethan MacGregor returns there for the first time in fourteen years, it is not for the scenery but an ultimatum: face what happened the night his first love fell from the island's highest cliff, or lose his wife and baby daughter.

At seventeen, Donna Gillies was fearless, barefoot and the only girl Ethan ever truly loved - until she died on a moonlit August night, broken on the rocks below a headland called The Saddle. The island has never doubted who killed her: Christopher MacGregor, Ethan's devout father.

As a storm season closes in, Ethan makes his fated return to The Saddle, finding there the traumatised families, the politics of a shrinking island, and the dangerous loyalties of a group of friends who once believed they would all escape.

On an island where the dead are never far from the living, Island of the Dead is a tense, atmospheric thriller about faith and obsession, first love and generational guilt - and about whether the truth, once unearthed, can ever set anyone free.

About Peter May

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 BBC, 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.In 2021, he was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library Award. He has also 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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This is a powerful exploration of human depravity and excessive family loyalty, set in glorious surroundings Literary Review (on The Black Loch)

Laced with melancholy, this is May at his very best . . . Do not miss it, it is unforgettable Daily Mail (on The Black Loch)

The Black Loch combines all the elements which propelled May to literary stardom: a likeable but deeply flawed protagonist, a plot that is centred on an island for which May clearly has an abiding love, and a narrative that unwinds slowly but surely through the inevitable twists and red herrings Scottish Field

Atmospheric, evocative, tense and compelling, this thought-provoking drama is another triumph from the master of moody crime Heat

This may be a chilling and enthralling crime thriller but Peter May's prose is exquisite, creating a sense of place brilliantly. The imagery surrounding the natural landscape is transformative, making the setting every bit as important as character or plot My Weekly

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