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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

The Black House by Peter May 357 pages


Edinburgh detective Fin Macleod is sent to his native Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides to investigate a killing that’s frighteningly familiar to another crime he recently investigated. Leaving behind a wife and the memory of his young son who was recently killed in an accident, Fin resolutely goes back home to face the events of the past that caused him to leave so many years ago and not return. The Black House jumps back and forth between the past and the present day in a slow but methodical way as Fin works to solve the murder and come to terms with the past.
This is a take your time kind of a read. The pace is slow, the focus is on the characters rather than the crime and sometimes it seems as if nothing is happening at all. But in the end it was all worth it.


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