Peter May
All Books By Peter May
Blacklight Blue
- By: Peter May
- Narrator: Peter Forbes
- Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: Mobius
- Publish date: January 22, 2019
- Language: English
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3.98(1773 ratings)
With no choice but to fight back, Macleod stashes his family in a safe house and sets to work. Increasingly convinced that the cold case he’s investigating is connected to his persecution, Macleod tries to connect the dots before it’s too late to save his life and the lives of those he loves. . .
Winter has settled in around the mountaintop restaurant, causing complications, as Enzo learns more about the complex web of relationships that surrounded the celebrated (if also unpredictable) chef–a spurned lover, a jealous wife, an estranged brother, an embittered food critic…
Lot-et-Garonne, 2003
Fourteen years later, a summer heat wave parches the countryside, killing trees and bushes and drying out streams. In the scorched mud and desiccated slime of the lake, a fisherman finds a skeleton wearing a bag over its skull.
Paris, October 2011
In an elegant apartment in Paris, forensic expert Enzo Macleod, now fifty-six years old, pores over the scant evidence of the sixth and final cold case he has been challenged to solve. The most obvious suspect is Regis 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. But Regis has a solid alibi, and Enzo has a feeling the real explanation might be more complicated. In taking on this old and seemingly impossible-to-crack case, Enzo puts everything and everyone he holds dear in terrible danger–and in ways even he never could have imagined.
Chinese Whispers
- By: Peter May
- Narrator: Peter Forbes
- Length: 12 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 02, 2019
- Language: English
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4.17(904 ratings)
The Beijing Ripper makes a personal vendetta against Detective Li Yan in the thrilling final episode of the series . . .
GRUESOME MURDERS
His victims are young, beautiful and coldly mutilated. He calls himself the Beijing Ripper. Li Yan, head of Beijing’s serious crime squad, must stop him.
FEARSOME LETTERS
Just as pathologist Margaret Campbell finds an insight into the killer’s cruel signature, Li receives a letter from the killer, betraying his cruel intentions.
CHINESE WHISPERS
There’s no way Li can misinterpret the Ripper’s motives: he wants to tear Li and Campbell’s lives apart, and write the darkest chapter in Beijing’s history.
... Read moreCoffin Road
- By: Peter May
- Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Mobius
- Publish date: June 13, 2017
- Language: English
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4(6913 ratings)
On the remote Isle of Harris in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, a man washes up on a deserted beach, hypothermic and completely disoriented. He has no idea who he is or how he got there. The only clue to his condition is a map of the island showing a desolate, ancient path called the Coffin Road. With a sense of dread and no clear idea what lies at the other end, he knows he must follow the trail if he has any hope of discovering his identity.
Meanwhile, homicide detective George Gunn makes the rough ocean crossing to a remote, sea-battered lighthouse on a rock in the northern Atlantic, twenty miles west of the Outer Hebrides, to investigate a brutal murder. Despite its isolation, the tiny island has seen its share of tragedy: more than a century earlier, three lighthouse keepers disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again. And now there is a new tragedy, and Gunn must figure out what happened.
At the same time, a teenage girl lies in her Edinburgh bedroom, desperate to discover the truth about her father’s death. Two years after the discovery of the pioneering scientist’s suicide note, Karen Fleming still cannot accept that her father would willingly abandon her. And the more she discovers about the nature of his research, the more she suspects that suicide had nothing to do with it.
What happened to Jacques Gaillard? The brilliant teacher at the École Nationale d’Administration, who trained some of France’s best and brightest as future prime ministers and presidents, vanished ten years ago, presumably from Paris. This ten-year-old mystery inspires a bet—one that Enzo Macleod, a biologist teaching in Toulouse, France, instead of pursuing a brilliant career in forensics back home in Scotland, can ill afford to lose. The wager is that Enzo can find out what happened to Jacques Gaillard by applying new science to a cold case.
Enzo goes to Paris to meet journalist Roger Raffin, the author of a book on seven celebrated unsolved murders, the assumption being that Gaillard is dead. He needs Raffin’s notes, and armed with these, he begins his quest. It quickly has him touring landmarks such as the Paris catacombs and a château in Champagne, digging up relics and bones. Then Enzo finds the actual head of Jacques Gaillard. The artifacts buried with the skull set him to interpreting the clues they provide and following in someone’s footsteps—maybe more than one someone—seeking the rest of Gaillard’s remains and reviewing some ancient and recent history. As with any quest, it’s as much discovery as detection, and Enzo, despite all his missteps, proves to be an ace investigator, scientific and intuitive, who definitely meets his goals.
... Read moreEntry Island
- By: Peter May
- Narrator: Peter Forbes
- Length: 13 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Mobius
- Publish date: April 05, 2016
- Language: English
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4.01(5192 ratings)
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 Madeline Islands, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, as part of an eight-officer investigation team from Montreal.
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 discovered murdered in his home. Covered in her husband’s blood, the dead man’s melancholy wife spins a tale for the police about a masked intruder armed with a knife.
Extraordinary People
- By: Peter May
- Narrator: Peter May
- Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Mobius
- Publish date: January 22, 2019
- Language: English
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3.68(3448 ratings)
As if his life isn’t complicated enough, he soon finds himself unexpectedly on the hunt for solutions to some vexing cold cases thanks to an ill-advised wager about the power of forensic science.
Meanwhile, in Paris, a man desperately seeking sanctuary flees into a church. The next day, his sudden disappearance will make him famous throughout France.
Deep in the catacombs below the City of Light, MacLeod unearths disturbing clues deliberately left behind by a killer. But as the retired forensics expert draws closer to the truth, he discovers he may just wind up the next victim for his troubles.
Freeze Frame
- By: Peter May
- Narrator: Peter Forbes
- Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Mobius
- Publish date: January 22, 2019
- Language: English
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4.06(1696 ratings)
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’ll Keep You Safe
- By: Peter May
- Narrator: Anna Murray
- Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 27, 2018
- Language: English
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3.64(4932 ratings)
Friends since childhood, and lovers and business partners as adults, Niamh and Ruairidh are owners of a small Hebridean company, Ranish Tweed, that weaves its own very special version of Harris Tweed. Although it’s a small company, their fabrics have become internationally sought-after as a niche brand in the world of fashion and haute couture.
But the threads of their relationship are beginning to fray. As they prepare for an important showing at the Premiere Vision fabric fair, held in Paris every year, Niamh accuses Ruairidh of having an affair with Irina, a Russian fashion designer they work with — a fight that ends with Ruairidh storming off and getting into Irina’s car. Moments later, Niamh watches in horror as the car containing her life partner explodes in a ball of flame.
With Niamh a prime suspect in the murder, the Parisian police hound her even after she returns to Harris to bury the pitiful remains of her lover and business partner. Amid the grief and struggles that follow, she begins to suspect that things are not what they seem; and when there is an attempt on her life, she becomes convinced that what looked like a terrorist attack on her lover might be something more personal by far . . .
... Read moreSUFFOCATED
A vehicle crammed with dozens of dead Chinese immigrants is found in southern Texas. Forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell must put aside her horror and find out why.
SUMMONED
Detective Li Yan — an even more unwelcome memory for Campbell — has arrived stateside to investigate a link in the case to a lucrative trade in illegal laborers.
SNAKEHEAD
Li and Campbell will soon find that the crime scene hides another secret: a biological time bomb linking traffickers, politicians, and migrants in Beijing, Washington, and Texas — posing multiple countries one very singular threat.
The Blackhouse
- By: Peter May
- Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Mobius
- Publish date: March 18, 2014
- Language: English
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4.08(23513 ratings)
When a grisly murder occurs on the Isle of Lewis that bears similarities to a brutal killing on mainland Scotland, Edinburgh detective and native of the Isle of Lewis Fin Macleod is dispatched to the Outer Hebrides to investigate, embarking at the same time on a voyage into his own troubled past.
The Blackhouse
- By: Peter May
- Narrator: Peter Forbes
- Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 05, 2018
- Language: English
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4.08(23513 ratings)
From acclaimed author and dramatist Peter May comes the Barry Award-winning The Blackhouse, the first book in the Lewis Trilogy — a riveting mystery series set on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides.
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.
As Fin reconnects with the people and places of his tortured childhood, the desolate but beautiful island and its ancient customs once again begin to assert their grip on his psyche. Every step toward solving the case brings Fin closer to a dangerous confrontation with the dark events of the past that shaped — and nearly destroyed — his life.
... Read moreThe Chessmen
- By: Peter May
- Narrator: Peter Forbes
- Length: 10 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 07, 2018
- Language: English
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4.1(10229 ratings)
Living again of the Isle of Lewis, ex-Detective Inspector Fin Macleod 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 friend, and bandmate, Whistler Macaskill.
When Fin catches up with Whistler among the windswept hills of the estate, the two witness a freak natural phenomenon — a bog burst — which drains a loch of all its water in a flash, revealing a mud-encased light aircraft with a sickeningly familiar moniker on its side.
Both men immediately know what they will find inside: the body of Roddy Mackenzie, a friend whose flight disappeared more than seventeen years before. But when Whistler’s face appears to register something other than shock, an icy chill of apprehension overtakes Fin. What secret has Whistler been hiding from him, and everyone else on the island? Fin is unprepared for how the truth about the past will alter the course of the future.
... Read moreThe Chessmen: The Lewis Trilogy
- By: Peter May
- Narrator: Peter Forbes
- Length: 10 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Mobius
- Publish date: April 05, 2016
- Language: English
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4.1(10229 ratings)
The Critic
- By: Peter May
- Narrator: Peter Forbes
- Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Mobius
- Publish date: January 22, 2019
- Language: English
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3.74(2215 ratings)
“A finely crafted and surprising mystery” –Kirkus Reviews
The body of Gil Petty, America’s most celebrated wine critic, is found strung up in a French Gaillac vineyard, dressed in the ceremonial robes of the Order of the Divine Bottle and pickled in wine.
For forensic expert Enzo Macleod, the key to this unsolved murder lies in decoding Petty’s mysterious reviews, which could make or break a vineyard’s reputation.
As he digs deeper for the motivation behind the shocking crime, Macleod finds that beneath the tranquil facade of French viticulture lurks a back-stabbing community characterized by a deadly rivalry–and home to someone who is ready to stop him even if they have to kill again to stop the investigation.
The Firemaker
- By: Peter May
- Narrator: Peter Forbes
- Length: 13 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 03, 2018
- Language: English
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3.87(2379 ratings)
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, throws herself into the investigation and before long uncovers a bizarre anomaly.
An unlikely partnership develops between Li and Campbell as they follow the resulting lead. A fiery and volatile chemistry ignites, exposing not only their individual demons, but an even greater evil — a conspiracy that threatens their lives, as well as those of millions of others.
... Read moreThe Fourth Sacrifice
- By: Peter May
- Narrator: Peter Forbes
- Length: 13 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: May 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.01(1563 ratings)
Detective Li Yan is determined to discover just how one of the victims in particular, an American diplomat, became caught up in the slaying. And he is arguably even more determined to have nothing to do with Campbell, whom he finds simultaneously too foreign and too . . . familiar.
The personal polarity that once attracted Yan and Campbell again strengthens their professional partnership. Yet the closer they draw to the truth, the greater the danger posed by a killer prepared to do anything to conceal it.
The Killing Room
- By: Peter May
- Narrator: Peter Forbes
- Length: 12 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 04, 2018
- Language: English
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4.09(1327 ratings)
Mei Ling is a formidable woman: a fact that is not lost on Li’s on-again, off-again lover, forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. But when Campbell, vulnerable and still grieving the death of her father, learns that the victims were subjected to “live” autopsies, she swallows her pride and joins Li Yan and Mei Ling in the hunt for the murderer.
As Li, Campbell, and Mei Ling enter the arena of a sickening nemesis they are forced to confront each of their very worst nightmares.
The Lewis Man
- By: Peter May
- Narrator: Peter Forbes
- Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 10, 2018
- Language: English
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4.21(16428 ratings)
In The Lewis Man, the second book of the trilogy, Fin Macleod has returned to the Isle of Lewis, the storm-tossed, wind-scoured outer Hebridean island where he was born and raised. Having left behind his adult life in Edinburgh — including his wife and his career in the police force — the former Detective Inspector is intent on repairing past relationships and restoring his parents’ derelict cottage. His plans are interrupted when an unidentified corpse is recovered from a Lewis peat bog. The only clue to its identity is a DNA match to a local farmer, the now-senile Tormod Macdonald — the father of Fin’s childhood sweetheart, Marsaili — a man who has claimed throughout his life to be an only child, practically an orphan. Reluctantly drawn into the investigation, Fin uncovers deep family secrets even as he draws closer to the killer who wishes to keep them hidden.
Already an international bestseller and winner of numerous awards, including France’s Prix des Lecteurs du Telegramme, The Lewis Man has the lyrical verve of Ian Rankin and the gutsy risk-taking of Benjamin Black. As fascinating and forbidding as the Hebridean landscape, the book (according to The Times) “throbs with past and present passions, jealousies, suspicions and regrets; the emotional secrets of the bleak island are even deeper than its peat bog.”
... Read moreThe Man with No Face
- By: Peter May
- Narrator: Peter Forbes
- Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Mobius
- Publish date: March 05, 2019
- Language: English
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4.01(2259 ratings)
As the facts slowly begin to emerge under Bannerman’s scrutiny, he comes to suspect that the shootings may have a deep and foul link with the rotten politics that brought him to Brussels in the first place.
The Night Gate
- By: Peter May
- Narrator: Peter Forbes
- Length: 13 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Mobius
- Publish date: March 16, 2021
- Language: English
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4.19(2301 ratings)
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In a sleepy French village, the body of a man shot through the head is disinterred by the roots of a fallen tree. A week later a famous art critic is viciously murdered in a nearby house. The deaths occurred more than seventy years apart.
Asked by a colleague to inspect the site of the former, forensics expert Enzo Macleod quickly finds himself embroiled in the investigation of the latter. Two extraordinary narratives are set in train – one historical, unfolding in the treacherous wartime years of Occupied France; the other contemporary, set in the autumn of 2020 as France re-enters Covid lockdown.
And Enzo’s investigations reveal an unexpected link between the murders -the Mona Lisa.
Tasked by the exiled General C harles de Gaulle to keep the world’s most famous painting out of Nazi hands after the fall of France in 1940, 28-year-old Georgette Pignal finds herself swept along by the tide of history. Following in the wake of Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa as it is moved from chateau to chateau by the Louvre, she finds herself just one step ahead of two German art experts sent to steal it for rival patrons – Hitler and Goring.
What none of them know is that the Louvre itself has taken exceptional measures to keep the painting safe, unwittingly setting in train a fatal sequence of events extending over seven decades.
Events that have led to both killings.
The Night Gate spans three generations, taking us from war-torn London, the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, Berlin and Vichy France, to the deadly enemy facing the world in 2020. In his latest novel, Peter May shows why he is one of the great contemporary writers of crime fiction.
The Open Question
- By: Peter May
- Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: August 10, 2021
- Language: English
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4.39(18 ratings)
In 1942, the United States Golf Association (USGA) cancelled its four golf tournaments for the duration of World War II. But then it did something different in only that year-it sponsored the Hale-America National Open on the same weekend as the cancelled US Open. The great Ben Hogan won that tournament and went to his grave believing he had therefore won a record five US Open titles.
In The Open Question, Peter May turns his attention to this controversial, colorful Hale-America National Open of 1942. While providing an in-depth look at the tournament itself, May champions Hogan’s claim to five US Open titles and debunks some questionable assertions that the tournament was not worthy of a US Open. Set against the backdrop of World War II, May also tells the stories of other professional golfers in the tournament and the impact of the war on all their lives.
The USGA has never recognized the Hale-America Tournament as an official US Open and remains firm in its stance. It was a decision that bothered Ben Hogan for the rest of his life. The Open Question shows how dominant Ben Hogan was against some of the biggest names in golf, and reveals why he deserves to be recognized as a five-time US Open winner.
The Runner
- By: Peter May
- Narrator: Peter Forbes
- Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: May 07, 2019
- Language: English
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4.15(967 ratings)
In this heart-stopping installment of Peter May’s award-winning China Thrillers, the Beijing Olympics are the setting for fierce competition, national pride — and murder.
THE SUFFERER
A prodigious Chinese swimmer kills himself on the eve of the Beijing Olympics. Days later, a champion weightlifter suffers a fatal heart attack prior to competition.
THE LISTENER
Detective Li Yan senses a conspiracy surrounding the fatalities, and finds a female athlete willing to talk. But she will only trust one person: Li’s fiancee, Margaret Campbell.
THE RUNNER
When Campbell’s contact herself vanishes, the gun is fired on a race against time. And Li must now outrun — and outwit — an enemy bent on pushing him beyond endurance.