Peter May
1) Blowback
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 5
Pub. Date
2011
Description
"Seven years earlier, France's top chef, Marc Fraysse, summoned the world's culinary press to his remote restaurant in central France to make an announcement that he said would cause shockwaves in the culinary community. Speculating that Fraysse's restaurant was about to lose one of his precious Michelin stars, the reporters were shocked to find instead that the great chef had been murdered. In the end, the media left without a clue about the...
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 3
Pub. Date
2008
Formats
Description
Beginning an investigation into a third cold case described in a book by Parisian journalist Roger Raffin, Scottish scholar and amateur detective Enzo MacLeod finds himself confronting a diagnosis of a terminal illness and attacks by someone out to frame him for murder.
3) The chessmen
Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island. This mission reunites him with Whistler Macaskill - a local poacher, Fin's teenage intimate, and possessor of a long-buried secret. But when this reunion takes a violent, sinister turn and Fin puts together the fractured pieces of the past, he realizes that revealing the truth could destroy...
4) Cast iron
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 6
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Mystery fiction. Detective and mystery stories. In 1989, a killer dumped the body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin into a picturesque lake in the West of France. Fourteen years later, during a summer heat wave, a drought exposed her remains - bleached bones amid the scorched mud and slime. No one was ever convicted of her murder. But now, forensic expert Enzo Macleod is reviewing this stone cold case - the toughest of those he has been challenged to...
5) Coffin Road
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Formats
Description
In the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, a man washes up on a deserted beach with no knowledge of who he is or how he got there, while homicide detective George Gunn makes the ocean crossing to a remote lighthouse on a rock in the North Atlantic to investigate a brutal murder.
6) Freeze frame
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 4
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Forensics expert Enzo Macleod travels to a tiny island off the coast of Brittany to honor a promise he made long ago to a dead man by investigating his 20-year-old murder. In a fascinating development, Enzo learns that the man's study--the scene of the crime--has lain untouched ever since.
8) The runner
Author
Series
China novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2010, c2003
Description
Beijing detective Li Yan opens an investigation after two high-profile athletes die--a top-ranked Chinese swimmer who committed suicide the night before an international event and an Olympic weightlifter who died in the arms of his mistress--and seeks aid from his American fiancée, pathologist Margaret Campbell.
Author
Series
China novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell's stay in Beijing, where she has gone to give a seminar, is extended when the U.S. ambassador insists she help police investigate the ritual murders of four men--the last a Chinese-born American, a task that forces her back into contact with Li Yan, the Beijing detective she loved and lost.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Husband and wife Niamh and Ruairidh Macfarlane co-own Ranish Tweed: a Hebridean company that weaves its own special variety of Harris cloth, which has become a sought-after brand in the world of high fashion. But when Niamh learns of Ruairidh's affair with Russian designer Irina Vetrov, then witnesses the pair killed by a car bomb in Paris, her life is left in ruins. Along with her husband's remains, she returns home to the Isle of Lewis, bereft....
11) Chinese whispers
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Description
The media and the terror-stricken public are demanding the arrest of the Beijing Ripper and Li Yan, the head of Beijing's serious crime squad, has been put in the spotlight. American pathologist Margaret Campbell is invited to perform an autopsy on one of the victims and her results send shockwaves through the investigation. Then Li begins receiving personal letters from the killer, and his life and career start falling apart.
12) The Lewis man
Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
An unidentified corpse is recovered from a Lewis peat bog; the only clue to its identity being a DNA sibling match to a local farmer. But this islander, Tormod Macdonald - now an elderly man suffering from dementia - has always claimed to be an only child. When Tormod's family approach Fin Macleod for help, Fin feels duty-bound to solve the mystery.
Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"When a grisly murder occurs on the Isle of Lewis that bears similarities to a brutal killing on the mainland, Edinburgh detective and native islander Fin Macleod is dispatched to the Outer Hebrides to investigate, embarking at the same time on a voyage into his own troubled past."--
14) The firemaker
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Description
"A grotesquely burned corpse found in a city park is a troubling mystery for Beijing detective Li Yan. Yan, devoted to his career as a means of restoring the respect his family lost during the Cultural Revolution, needs outside help if he is to break the case. The unidentified cadaver in turn provides a welcome distraction for forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. Campbell, married to her work and having left America and her broken past behind,...
15) Entry Island
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"When a murder rocks the isolated community of Entry Island, insomniac homicide detective Sime Mackenzie boards a light aircraft at St. Hubert airfield bound for the small, scattered chain of Magdalen Islands, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, as part of an eight-officer investigation team from Montréal. Only two kilometers wide and three long, Entry Island is home to a population of just more than 100 inhabitants, the wealthiest of whom has just been...
16) Snakehead
Author
Series
China novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Beijing detective Li Yan, now based at the Chinese embassy in Washington, is dispatched to find out how his fellow countrymen died in a sealed refrigeration unit in southern Texas.