THE FINAL VOLUME IN PETER MAY'S LANDMARK LEWIS TRILOGY "MAGICAL." -- KIRKUS REVIEWS
"UTTERLY ABSORBING." -- BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW) "A PERFECTLY FORMED TRILOGY." -- THE
INDEPENDENT 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 his former childhood friend and bandmate the elusive poacher
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?
