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A review by jimbowen0306
The Blackhouse by Peter May
3.0
This book sees Fin Macleod, a Scot from the Isle of Lewis, return to his small-c conservative (or slightly bigoted maybe) backwoods town (from Edinburgh), after a murder there looks like one he's investigating in his home patch.
The men of Lewis, are hard drinking "men", while women and children "know better" than to answer back, which is why Macleod got up and left. Some people can only take so much oppression.
Anyway, he's back, and the book alternates between Macleod's relevant reminiscences about the past, and his current investigation. If half of what he says about Lewis is typical of the area, it's a tough place to grow up, though might be typical of the "working" working-class.
The book is okay, I guess. It's just the ending stretched credibility somewhat. You know it was going to be something, because the book kept banging on about it, but you aren't going to guess the exact details, because Macleod is such an unreliable narrator that he'll end up leading you astray (which is a bit of a pain, for a police officer).
The men of Lewis, are hard drinking "men", while women and children "know better" than to answer back, which is why Macleod got up and left. Some people can only take so much oppression.
Anyway, he's back, and the book alternates between Macleod's relevant reminiscences about the past, and his current investigation. If half of what he says about Lewis is typical of the area, it's a tough place to grow up, though might be typical of the "working" working-class.
The book is okay, I guess. It's just the ending stretched credibility somewhat. You know it was going to be something, because the book kept banging on about it, but you aren't going to guess the exact details, because Macleod is such an unreliable narrator that he'll end up leading you astray (which is a bit of a pain, for a police officer).