Paperback edition of the second book in the "Lewis" trilogy, following "The Blackhouse". When an unidentified corpse is found in a Lewis peat bog, the DNA sibling match leads the police to an elderly man suffering from dementia, who claims to be an only child. Fin Mcleod feels duty bound to solve the mystery. "The Blackhouse" sold more than 100,000 copies in the UK. 'As good as its superb predecessor' "Guardian"

Peter May is the multi award-winning author of the internationally best-selling Lewis Trilogy set in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland; the China Thrillers, featuring Beijing detective Li Yan and American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell; the critically-acclaimed Enzo Files, featuring Scottish forensic scientist Enzo MacLeod, which is set in France; and Entry Island. One of Scotland's most prolific television dramatists, he garnered more than a thousand credits in fifteen years as scriptwriter and script editor on prime-time British television drama. He is the creator of three major television drama series and presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland before quitting television to concentrate on his first love, writing novels.