Peter May
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 3
Language
English
Description
Former forensics expert and current Toulouse professor Enzo Macleod is forced to take a break from his personal and professional pursuits when he is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Worse, though, it seems he has become the victim of someone who is trying to destroy his life—by ruining his credit, threatening him and his family, and finally framing him for murder.
With no choice but to fight back, Macleod stashes his family in a safe house...
With no choice but to fight back, Macleod stashes his family in a safe house...
2) Blowback
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beginning an investigation into a fourth cold case described in a book by Parisian journalist Roger Raffin, Scottish scholar and amateur detective Enzo MacLeod travels to a small island off the coast of Brittany where his attempts to solve a 20-year-old murder are assisted by clues the dead man left in his study.
3) The critic
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gil Petty, the world's leading wine critic, vanishes during a tasting tour of the wine region of Gaillac. Scottish exile and former forensics expert Enzo Macleod takes on the cold case.
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
IN THE FIRST BOOK OF PETER MAY'S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ENZO FILES, FORENSICS EXPERT ENZO MACLEOD WAGERS THAT HE CAN SOLVE SIX PERPLEXING COLD CASES—AND UNEXPECTEDLY PLACES HIMSELF DIRECTLY IN HARM'S WAY.
"ACTION-PACKED." —ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"BRISK AND THRILLING." —THE BALTIMORE SUN
"THOROUGHLY ENGAGING." —LIBRARY JOURNAL
5) Cast iron
Author
Series
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Peter May's new thriller--the red-hot finale to the cold-case Enzo Files"--
"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 the...
7) Snakehead
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the fourth of Peter May's China thrillers, American pathologist Margaret Campbell finds herself back on home soil, only to be faced by a truck full of dead Chinese and an unavoidable confrontation with her past.
Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2014, ©2012.
Language
English
Description
Fin Macleod returns to the outer Hebridean island of his youth to make amends and restore his parents' cottage before investigating a death involving family secrets and a sinister adversary.
9) The chessmen
Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ex-Detective Inspector Fin McLeod discovers a light aircraft at the bottom of a spontaneously drained loch while investigating illegal activity on the estate of a poacher and former childhood friend.
Sequel to: The Lewis man.
Living again of the Isle of Lewis, ex-Detective Inspector Fin McLeod is working as a security officer for a local landowner. While investigating illegal activity on the estate Fin encounters the elusive poacher and former childhood...
10) The night gate
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 7
Publisher
Riverrun
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Enzo's investigations reveal an unexpected link between two murders-the Mona Lisa.
11) Coffin road
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
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.
12) The firemaker
Author
Series
China novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Author
Series
China novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
There are two men on their way to Brussels from the UK: Neil Bannerman, an iconoclastic journalist for Scotland's Daily Standard whose irate editor wants him out of the way, and Kale--a professional assassin. Expecting to find only a difficult, dreary political investigation in Belgium, Bannerman has barely settled in when tragedy strikes. His host, a fellow journalist, along with a British Cabinet minister, are discovered dead in the minister's...
15) Entry Island
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2015, ©2014.
Language
English
Description
When Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on a remote island 850 miles away, he leaves behind him a life of sleeplessness and regret. But what had initially seemed an open-and-shut case takes on a disturbing dimension when he meets the prime suspect, the victim's wife, and is convinced that he knows her - even though they have never met. And when his insomnia becomes punctuated by dreams of a distant Scottish past...
16) The killing room
Author
Series
China novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A thriller that alternates between the glamorous fashion world of Paris and the rugged beauty of the Isle of Harris in the Scottish Hebrides. When a fabric entrepreneur is killed in a car explosion in Paris, Niamh, his wife and business partner, becomes the prime suspect. The Parisian police continue to hound her when she returns to Harris to bury her husband's remains. After an attempt is made on her life, Niamh has to wonder if the motive is simply...
18) Runaway
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Glasgow, 2015. Jack Mackay dares not look back on a life of failure and mediocrity. The heavy-hearted sixty-seven-year-old is still haunted by what might have been. His recollections of the terrible events that befell him and his friends some fifty years earlier, and how he did not act when it mattered most is a memory he has tried to escape his entire adult life. London, 2015. A man lies dead in a one-room flat. His killer looks on, remorseless....
19) A silent death
Author
Publisher
Riverrun, an imprint of Quercus Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Spain, 2020. When ex-pat fugitive Jack Cleland watches his girlfriend die, gunned down in a pursuit involving officer Cristina Sanchez Pradell, he promises to exact his revenge by destroying the policewoman Cristina's aunt Ana has been deaf-blind for the entirety of her adult life: the victim of a rare condition named Usher Syndrome. Ana is the centre of Cristina's world, and of Cleland's cruel plan. John Mackenzie, an ingenious yet irascible Glaswegian...
Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 1
Publisher
SilverOak
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When a grisly murder occurs on a Scottish island, Edinburgh detective Fin Macleod must confront his past if he is ever going to discover if the killing has a connection to another one that took place on the mainland.
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