{"id":8805,"date":"2025-01-08T22:15:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/the-black-loch-peter-may-grab-this-book\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T22:15:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:15:48","slug":"the-black-loch-peter-may-grab-this-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=8805","title":{"rendered":"The Black Loch \u2013 Peter May \u2013 Grab This Book"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\"\"<\/a>A murder.<\/p>\n

The body of eighteen-year-old TV personality Kathleen is found abandoned on a remote beach at the head of An Loch Dubh<\/i> \u2013 the Black Loch \u2013 on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis. A swimmer and canoeist, it is inconceivable that she could have drowned.<\/p>\n

A secret.<\/p>\n

Fin Macleod left the island ten years earlier to escape its memories. When he learns that his married son Fionnlagh had been having a clandestine affair with the dead girl and is suspected of her murder, he and Marsaili return to try and clear his name.<\/p>\n

A trap.<\/p>\n

But nothing is as it seems, and the truth of the murder lies in a past that Fin would rather forget, and a tragedy at the cages of a salmon farm on East Loch Roag, where the tense climax of the story finds its resolution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I was grateful to receive a review copy from the publishers before publication date to allow me to take part in the blog tour for The Black Loch<\/p>\n

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The Black Loch is Book 4 of The Lewis Trilogy. As a long-standing fan of Douglas Adams my first thought was of \u201cSo Long and Thanks For All The Fish\u201d being dubbed the fourth volume in the Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy series and it immedately made me think kindly towards The Black Loch. But although both books brought me a great deal of satisfaction as I read them, there is nothing whacky or zany about The Black Loch and that\u2019s probably a bit of a relief for the returning readers.<\/p>\n

Peter May brings Fin Macleod back to The Hebrides in this compelling murder mystery tale. Fin\u2019s son (Fionnlagh) has become caught up in a murder investigation \u2013 caught up doing a lot of heavy lifting there.\u00a0 Fionnlagh is accused of having an affair with the murdered girl, she\u2019d been a vivacious outgoing character and something of a local celebrity. Unfortunately the readers don\u2019t get to see that vibrant youth as no sooner is Caitlin introduced when her life gets cut horribly short.<\/p>\n

Fin has been working on the mainland \u2013 far from the islands where he lived and grew up.\u00a0 He has a job he hates, locked in a dark computer suite for long days where he pours over images of violence and depravity analysing scenes which most people could not stand to see for a single moment and couldn\u2019t imagine being employed to look through them. When Fin gets word Fionnlagh is in trouble he immediately moves to return \u201chome\u201d to help his son. However, much has changed in the time he has been away and there\u2019s a new man heading the invesigiation who is young, keen and very much out to make a name for himself by clearing up a murder investigation in record time. He has no interest in entertaining Fin or answering any of his questions. It\u2019s a toxic situation for Fin and Peter May will put several of the characters in The Black Loch through emotional turmoil before the story draws to a conclusion.<\/p>\n

This is very much a story for characters and how their lives interlock and overlap. Small communities always bring the best tales of secrets and suspicion and The Black Loch will give Peter May plenty of opportunity to let his readers experience the conflicts and emotion of his assembled cast. As you should expect from a Peter May novel, this is a deeply engaging story which will see the author weave his threads and draw you into this tight nit community and it is only as you become truly immersed in the story that you will begin to see how those threads pull together.<\/p>\n

It is always a delight to get lost inside one of Peter May\u2019s stories. I never pick up one of his books expecting high octane thrills and cliffhangers at every chapter. But he does locations and characters magnificently and the depiction of the West of Scotland really resonated with me in this story. You cannot help but get engaged in the lives of the characters in a Peter May book and there are some dark moments going to be revisited in The Black Loch which were quite unsettling at times. But it is a terrific read and fans of Fin Macleod who will delight in his return will not be disappointed.<\/p>\n

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The Black Loch is published by Quercus (Riverrun) and will release on 12 September in hardback, digital and audiobook format.\u00a0 Pre-order a copy here: https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/the-black-loch\/peter-may\/9781529436068<\/a><\/p>\n

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