Showing results by author "Peter May" in Crime Fiction

Paris. An old mystery. As midnight strikes, a man desperately seeking sanctuary flees into a church. The next day, his sudden disappearance will make him famous throughout France. A new science. Forensic expert Enzo Macleod takes a wager to solve the seven most notorious French murders, armed with modern technology and a total disregard for the justice system. A fresh trail. Deep in the catacombs below the city, he unearths dark clues deliberately set - and as he draws closer to the killer, discovers that he is to be the next victim.

In 1989 a killer dumped the body of 20-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 solve. Yet when Enzo finds a flaw in the original evidence surrounding Lucie's murder, he opens a Pandora's box.

Marqué par la perte récente de son fils unique, l'inspecteur Fin Macleod, déjà chargé d'élucider un assassinat commis à Édimbourg, est envoyé sur Lewis, son île natale, où il n'est pas retourné depuis dix-huit ans. Un cadavre exécuté selon le même modus operandi que celui d'Édimbourg vient d'y être découvert. Sur cette île tempétueuse du nord de l'Écosse, couverte de landes, où l'on se chauffe à la tourbe, pratique encore le sabbat chrétien et parle la langue gaélique, Fin est confronté à son enfance.