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The Blackhouse
by Peter May
I hadn't read Peter May before. Now I know I'll read everything that he's written. This is the first in a project trilogy featuring Scottish detective Fin MacLeod. Fin is a police detective in Edinburgh who has been investigating a series of grisly murders. When a similar murder turns up in remote Lewis Island, in the Outer Hebrides, Fin is sent. The local detective isn't particularly happy to have an outside coming in. However, Fin is even more unhappy because he was born and raised on this island and hasn't been back for nearly 18 years. Now he not only has to find a murderer, but he also has to confront his own past. At the same time he is mourning the death of his 8 year old son who was killed in a hit and run accident and the end of his marriage. This is some of the best writing I've read in a crime novel in a while. It's more than just a murder mystery - much more. I'm already looking forward to the next one in the series.