Lewis Trilogy · Book 4
The Black Loch
- Published
- 5 September 2024
- Pages
- 388
- ISBN-13
- 9781529436075
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Black Loch, published in September 2024 at 388 pages, brings Peter May back to Fin Macleod a decade after The Chessmen closed the original trilogy, picking up the Lewis-born detective's life in late middle age for a fourth investigation. It works as a genuine continuation rather than a fresh start, so it's best read last, after The Blackhouse, The Lewis Man and The Chessmen -- the breakout trilogy that turned May into an international bestseller once English-language readers finally discovered it in 2011.
Its place in Lewis Trilogy
The Black Loch is book 4 in the Lewis Trilogy series. It follows The Chessmen. See the full Lewis Trilogy reading order.
Fin Macleod is a Lewis-born detective who left the Isle of Lewis at eighteen and swore he'd never go back. The trilogy that made Peter May's name in English-language crime fiction keeps pulling him back anyway: first as a homicide detective sent to investigate a killing that echoes a death from his own childhood, then into his own fractured family history, then into a murder tangled up with the island's Gaelic-speaking elite. Across the three books the mystery plot and Fin's personal reckoning with the island he…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781529436075