Peter May

The body of eighteen-year-old TV personality Caitlin is found abandoned on a remote beach at the head of An Loch Dubh - the Black Loch - on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis. A swimmer and canoeist, it is inconceivable that she could have drowned.

Fin Macleod left the island ten years earlier to escape its memories. When he learns that his married son Fionnlagh had been having a clandestine affair with the dead girl and is suspected of her murder, he and Marsaili return to try and clear his name.

But nothing is as it seems, and the truth of the murder lies in a past that Fin would rather forget, and a tragedy at the cages of a salmon farm on East Loch Roag, where the tense climax of the story finds its resolution.  Book 4 of series.

A brutal killing has taken place on Scotland's most remote island. Detective Fin MacLeod is sent from Edinburgh to investigate. For Lewis-born MacLeod, the case represents a journey both home and into his past. As Fin investigates, old secrets are unearthed, and soon he, the hunter, becomes the hunted. Richard & Judy Bookclub  Book 1 of series.

Diagnosed with a terminal illness, Enzo Macleod is running out of time to crack the most confounding of unsolved French murders.

His daughter is nearly killed, Enzo is mugged - and then he is arrested. Someone is trying to destroy his character. Someone is framing him for murder.

Killers from the past will stop at nothing to halt Enzo, who must use all his forensic skills to solve the case - before they succeed.

Book 3 in the Enzo Files.

It is seven years since France's top chef, Marc Fraysse, was murdered and the identity of his killer remains an enigma. Enzo Macleod, in opening up this celebrated cold case, finds himself reopening old wounds from his own past.  Book 5 of series.

Forensic expert Enzo Macleod is reviewing the case of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin, her body dumped into a picturesque lake in the West of France in 1989. When he finds a flaw in the original evidence surrounding Lucie's murder, he opens a Pandora's box that endangers his entire family.  Book 6 of series.

Fin Macleod is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island of Lewis. This reunites him with Whistler Macaskill - a local poacher, Fin's teenage intimate, and possessor of a long-buried secret. But when this reunion takes a violent, sinister turn, Fin realizes that revealing the truth could destroy the future.  Book 3 of series.

His victims are young and beautiful. He calls himself the Beijing Ripper. Li Yan, of Beijing's serious crime squad, must stop him. When Li receives a letter from the killer, portraying his cruel intentions, there's no way he can misinterpret the Ripper's motives: he wants to write the darkest chapter in Beijing's history...  Book 6 of series.

A man stands bewildered on a deserted beach on the Hebridean Isle of Harris. He cannot remember who he is, the only clue to his identity is a folded map of a path named the Coffin Road. When DS George Gunn arrives from Lewis, he finds himself on a perilous journey towards a shocking truth - and the realisation that ignorance can kill us.

Four years ago, wine critic Gil Petty went missing during a tour of the wine region of Gaillac; his body was discovered strung up on a cross in a vineyard. Looking into the unsolved murder, forensic expert Enzo Macleod finds that beneath the tranquil façade of French viticulture lurks a back-stabbing community riddled with rivalry - and someone who is ready to stop him even if they have to kill again...  Book 2 of series.

Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island, 850 miles from the Canadian mainland. But what had initially seemed an open-and-shut case takes on a disturbing dimension when he meets the prime suspect, the victim's wife, and is convinced that he knows her - even though they have never met.

Forensic expert Enzo Macleod takes a wager to solve seven notorious French murders, armed with modern technology and a total disregard for the justice system. Deep in the catacombs below Paris, he unearths dark clues, and as he draws closer to the killer, discovers that he is to be the next victim.  Book 1 of series

Margaret Campbell is a forensic pathologist from Chicago. Li Yan is a Beijing detective with a horribly burned corpse on his hands. Neither of them is ready for the consequences of asking the wrong questions about the dead man..the ones that lead to the terrifying truth.  Book 1 of series.

The first victims are drugged, tied, labelled with a single word and a single number - then expertly beheaded. The fourth victim is an American diplomat. But the closer Margaret Campbell and Li Yan come to the truth behind the executions, the more dangerously close they come to a killer who is prepared to sacrifice anyone to conceal it.  Book 2 of series

A promise made to a dying man leads forensics ace Enzo Macleod to the study which the man's heir has preserved for nearly twenty years. A crime scene frozen in time and a collection of impenetrable messages, make this one of Enzo's most difficult cases.  Book 4 of series.

When the mutilated and dismembered bodies of eighteen women are discovered in Shanghai, Detective Li Yan is sent to establish if the corpses relate to an unsolved murder in Beijing. And when pathologist Margaret Campbell discovers that the victims were subjected to live autopsies, they find the most horrifying catalogue of killings ever uncovered.  Book 3 of series

Former Detective Inspector Fin Macleod has returned to Lewis, the island of his birth, intent on restoring his parents’ derelict croft. When a body discovered in a peat bog turns out to have a DNA link to the father of his childhood sweetheart, he becomes involved in solving the mystery.  Book 2 of series.

London is in lockdown under martial law. A hospital is being urgently built by the river Thames to contain the thousands of victims of a flu-like epidemic. Construction is brought to a sudden halt when the bones of a child are unearthed from the rubble. DI Jack MacNeil is facing his last day on the force, his career in ruins, his marriage over and his beloved son, Jack, dying from the virus. He has only hours to prevent the killer from eliminating all witnesses to a conspiracy whose evil effects are beyond belief.

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.

Book 7 in the Enzo Files.

In 1965, five teenage friends fled Glasgow for London to pursue their dream of musical stardom. Yet before the year's end three of the five boys returned, and they returned damaged. In 2015, a brutal murder forces those three friends, now in their sixties, to journey back to London and finally confront the dark truth they have run from for five decades.

A top Chinese swimmer kills himself on the eve of an international event. An Olympic weightlifter dies in the arms of his mistress. Both men's deaths are connected to a sinister series of killings and Beijing detective Li Yan finds himself in charge of what could be his last investigation.  Book 5 of series.

A young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in Kinlochleven discovers the body of a missing man entombed in ice.

Cameron Brodie, a Glasgow detective, sets out on a hazardous journey to the isolated and ice-bound village. He has his own reasons for wanting to investigate a murder case so far from his beat.

Brodie must face up to the ghosts of his past and to a killer determined to bury forever the chilling secret that his investigation threatens to expose.