The Chessmen: The Lewis Trilogy
Registered by gypsysmom of Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on 9/29/2017
This book is in a Controlled Release!
This book is in a Controlled Release!
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My husband gave me The Blackhouse, the first book in the Lewis Trilogy, for Christmas 2016. I loved it and he remembered that. So for my birthday he bought me the remaining two books. What a great guy!
Thus concludes the Lewis trilogy but never despair. I am told that the Enzo series is just as good and as my husbands spoils me silly he gave me one for Christmas. Whew! Just when I thought I might have to be without a Peter May book Christmas took care of that.
We learn a lot about Fin Macleod's childhood and teenage years in this book. Fin attended high school in Stornoway and because of the distance from his home in Ness he lived in a dormitory from Monday until Friday. So did many others from farther parts of the island and Fin made friends with a number of kids from Uig. His best friend was Whistler, a big lad with a smart brain. He and some of the others from Uig had a band. Whistler played the flute, Mairead was the singer and fiddler, Roddie was the keyboardist and, with Strings, songwriter. Fin was dragooned as a roadie to help pack up and set up when the band played around the island. Then they graduated and went to Glasgow for university except Whistler who had decided to stay behind. The band got to be quite well known and Fin continued to work for them. He also had a fling with Mairead whom everyone was in love with but who had an on and off relationship with Roddie. Then Roddie was flying his little plane and it crashed never to be found again. Until Fin was back on the island 20 years later and was up in the mountains with Whistler. A loch drained suddenly and there was Roddie's little plane. When Fin and Whistler investigated they found a body inside the plane with an obvious skull fracture. Although Fin is no longer a policeman he can't help but try to solve this cold case which brings back the memories of his youth.
We learn a lot about Fin Macleod's childhood and teenage years in this book. Fin attended high school in Stornoway and because of the distance from his home in Ness he lived in a dormitory from Monday until Friday. So did many others from farther parts of the island and Fin made friends with a number of kids from Uig. His best friend was Whistler, a big lad with a smart brain. He and some of the others from Uig had a band. Whistler played the flute, Mairead was the singer and fiddler, Roddie was the keyboardist and, with Strings, songwriter. Fin was dragooned as a roadie to help pack up and set up when the band played around the island. Then they graduated and went to Glasgow for university except Whistler who had decided to stay behind. The band got to be quite well known and Fin continued to work for them. He also had a fling with Mairead whom everyone was in love with but who had an on and off relationship with Roddie. Then Roddie was flying his little plane and it crashed never to be found again. Until Fin was back on the island 20 years later and was up in the mountains with Whistler. A loch drained suddenly and there was Roddie's little plane. When Fin and Whistler investigated they found a body inside the plane with an obvious skull fracture. Although Fin is no longer a policeman he can't help but try to solve this cold case which brings back the memories of his youth.
I passed this book on to my sister as I have the other books in the series. I'm not sure if she has read any of them yet but I think she will like them when she has.
