Book description
A long-ago promise made to a dying man leads forensics ace Enzo
Macleod, a Scot who's been teaching in France for many years, to the
study of a man murdered nearly twenty years ago. The study has been
preserved, untouched, since the man's murder. The dead man left several
clues there designed to reveal his killer's identity to his son, but
ironically the son died soon after the father and never saw his father's
message. So begins the fourth of seven cold cases written up in a
bestselling book by Parisian journalist Roger Raffin, cases Enzo rashly
boasted he could solve (he's been successful with the first three). This
case takes Enzo to a tiny island off the coast of Brittany in France,
where he must confront the hostility of locals who have no desire to see
the infamous murder back in the headlines.?An attractive widow, a man
charged but acquitted of the murder (but still the viable suspect), a
crime scene frozen in time, a dangerous hell hole by the cliffs, and a
collection of impenetrable messages make this one of Enzo's most
difficult cases. May's excellent fourth Enzo McLeod mystery (after
2008's Blacklight Blue) takes the Scottish forensics wizard, who
impulsively bet his daughter's boyfriend he could solve seven cold
cases, to the Ile de Groix off the coast of Brittany, where he may
finally meet his Waterloo. The quaint island is the site of the
notorious 1990 slaying of tropical disease specialist and entomologist
Adam Killian in his study. For two decades the crime scene-and the
cryptic hints Killian supposedly left to identify his killer-have
remained as undisturbed as an insect frozen in amber. Can Macleod,
distracted by personal dramas that involve his sometime lover,
Charlotte, and a menacing stalker, decipher the message-and stay in one
piece? With its intricate plot, compelling characters, and bombshell
denouement, this unsettling Enzo Files installment is a must-read.
Peter May won the Scottish Young Journalist of the Year Award at the age
of 21, and had his first novel published at 26. He then left journalism
and became one of Scotland's most successful and prolific television
dramatists. Returning now to novels, his outstanding China Thrillers
series of books are winning critical acclaim. To research the series,
Peter May makes annual trips to China. As a mark of their respect for
his work, The Chinese Crime Writers' Association made him an honorary
member of their Beijing Chapter. He is the only Westerner to receive
such an honour. Peter May is married to writer Janice Hally and lives in
France.
