His quest for revenge is cut short when a woman's body turns up on the remote island of Canna, and Jack is summoned to investigate. I loved Coffin Road for its setting, excellent pacing and bringing such an important subject to light to us that may not of known a great deal about in the past. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Two deeply engrossing stories run interwoven until they collide in this extremely interesting novel. This is the fourth Peter May book that I have read, and it may be my favorite, although all have been wonderful.. 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. But these conditions did not apply to the emigrants forced to sail the Atlantic during The Clearances. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 April 2020. I will be recommending it, and I think even my teenage children, who up until now haven’t been interested in reading history, will be captivated by your writing. In the claustrophobic environment of the island's close-knit community, where the locals have no desire to see this painful case reopened, Macleod must try to find clues in plain sight that earlier investigators missed. I researced further but the waters became very muddied! I was on the point of returning the "book" on that basis alone, but didn't have time to find something else. The most obvious suspect is Régis Blanc, a former pimp already imprisoned for the murders of three sex workers, who may have been Lucie's lover in the months before her disappearance. Stream or download thousands of included titles. When Campbell's contact herself vanishes, the gun is fired on a race against time. I loved the book – weaving together the story of the crime with the settlement history of the islands (I live in Nova Scotia and didn’t know much about them at all) and the harrowing stories of the clearances really worked. He is a troubled man beset by insomnia and regrets about the course his life has taken. I had initially intended to use Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island as the centres of the contemporary crime story. And I set off for Quebec to do my research. Both of them mentioned above would make fantastic movies IMHO and really showcase the Highlands and Islands to the wider world. The investigation appears to be little more than a formality - the evidence points to a crime of passion, implicating the wife. Before long the perpetrator has another target: DCI Gillard himself. I have just finished reading Entry Island and couldn’t put it down. As he digs deeper for the motivation behind the shocking crime, Macleod finds that beneath the tranquil façade of French viticulture lurks a back-stabbing community characterized by a deadly rivalry. As a storm closes in, Jack finds himself cut-off from the rest of the world, with no car, no phone signal, and only DC Neish for company, By: But I didn’t want to write a historical novel, and as a crime writer I obviously had to find a way of bringing the criminal, the contemporary and the historical, all together in one story.

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