The first instalment of Peter May’s acclaimed and bestselling Lewis Trilogy, which brought murder to the Outer Hebrides.

A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith.

A MURDER

Detective Inspector Fin Macleod is sent from Edinburgh to investigate. For Lewis-born Macleod, the case represents a journey both home and into his past.

A SECRET

Something lurks within the close-knit island community. Something sinister.

A TRAP

As Fin investigates, old skeletons begin to surface, and soon he, the hunter, becomes the hunted.

‘One of the best regarded crime series of recent years’ – Independent

‘No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel than Peter May’ – New York Journal of Books