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A review by tanja_alina_berg
The Lewis Man by Peter May
3.0
This is the third book by this author that I've read in fairly short order. I can't say that this book was disappointing, it wasn't. I got to know the main characters from "the Black House" even better. The unraveling of the murder mystery was slow going and in terms of the usual crime novels, unconventional.
A body is found in a peat bog on Lewis. It turns out not to be so very old as firs expected and when DNA tested, shows relations to Tormod MacDonald. This is Marsili's demented father. Fin, who has quit his job as a police on the Scottish mainland, is eager to discover the truth since his childhood flame's father is likely to be the primary culprit of a police investigation.
The story moves between Fin's attempts at discovering the trugh and Tormod's voice, past and present. There is a lot of secrets to be discovered, brought on by the body. Tormod was supposed to be an only child. The going is slow. There is an overwhelming sense of loss. The loss of Fin's and Marsili's hopes and dreams, of Tormod's disappearing short-term memory. It's very different from the usual output in the genre and quite enjoyable in its bleakness.
A body is found in a peat bog on Lewis. It turns out not to be so very old as firs expected and when DNA tested, shows relations to Tormod MacDonald. This is Marsili's demented father. Fin, who has quit his job as a police on the Scottish mainland, is eager to discover the truth since his childhood flame's father is likely to be the primary culprit of a police investigation.
The story moves between Fin's attempts at discovering the trugh and Tormod's voice, past and present. There is a lot of secrets to be discovered, brought on by the body. Tormod was supposed to be an only child. The going is slow. There is an overwhelming sense of loss. The loss of Fin's and Marsili's hopes and dreams, of Tormod's disappearing short-term memory. It's very different from the usual output in the genre and quite enjoyable in its bleakness.