![]() ![]() ![]() In 2011, The Blackhouse won the 2011 Cezam Prix Littéraire Inter CE, a readers' prize for best novel by a European author, published in France. ![]() As the narrative progresses, it emerges that Fin and his childhood story are intimately linked with the murder. The story unfolds as the chapters alternate between present-day events, written in the third person, and Fin's childhood, written in the first person. The Blackhouse is a suspense thriller, the first novel of The Lewis Trilogy, written by the Scottish writer Peter May. The modus operandi of the crime resembles a murder that Fin recently investigated in Edinburgh, so there is the possibility of a common perpetrator. The protagonist, Detective Inspector Finlay Macleod (known as Fin), a native of the island, is sent from his Edinburgh police station to investigate the murder of a man who, it transpires, was the bully at Fin's school. The action takes place mostly on the remote and weather-beaten Isle of Lewis off the coast of northern Scotland. The Blackhouse is a suspense thriller, the first novel of The Lewis Trilogy, written by the Scottish writer Peter May. ![]()
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