Coffin Road by Peter May follows three perilous journeys.
A man is washed up on a deserted beach on the Hebridean Isle of Harris, barely alive and borderline hypothermic. He has no idea who he is or how he got there. The only clue to his identity is a map tracing a track called the Coffin Road. He doesn't know where it will lead him, but filled with trepidation he knows he must follow it.
A detective crosses rough Atlantic seas to a remote rock twenty miles west of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. With a sense of foreboding he steps ashore where three lighthouse keepers disappeared more than a century before - a mystery that remains unsolved. But now there is a new mystery - a man found bludgeoned to death on that same rock, and DS George Gunn must find out who did it and why.
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 he would wilfully abandon her. And the more she discovers about the nature of his research, the more she suspects that someone was responsible for his disappearance.
The novel deals with the question of identity, and corporate greed. Research into the decline of bees may not be to the liking of certain corporations with much to lose. Does this have anything to do with our protagonist?
It is well written and an absorbing read, I enjoyed it. I became very confused with two of the characters with the same name. My book group explained it, but I can’t remember what it was!
A man is washed up on a deserted beach on the Hebridean Isle of Harris, barely alive and borderline hypothermic. He has no idea who he is or how he got there. The only clue to his identity is a map tracing a track called the Coffin Road. He doesn't know where it will lead him, but filled with trepidation he knows he must follow it.
A detective crosses rough Atlantic seas to a remote rock twenty miles west of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. With a sense of foreboding he steps ashore where three lighthouse keepers disappeared more than a century before - a mystery that remains unsolved. But now there is a new mystery - a man found bludgeoned to death on that same rock, and DS George Gunn must find out who did it and why.
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 he would wilfully abandon her. And the more she discovers about the nature of his research, the more she suspects that someone was responsible for his disappearance.
The novel deals with the question of identity, and corporate greed. Research into the decline of bees may not be to the liking of certain corporations with much to lose. Does this have anything to do with our protagonist?
It is well written and an absorbing read, I enjoyed it. I became very confused with two of the characters with the same name. My book group explained it, but I can’t remember what it was!
~Happy Reading ~
I am a great fan of the Peter May books particularly the trilogy of the Isle of Lewis. It makes for a great tour around the Island bringing to life the book.
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