Coffin Road: An utterly gripping crime thriller from the author of The China Thrillers

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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 willfully abandon her. And the more she discovers about the nature of his research, the more she suspects that others were behind his disappearance. So there are three investigations going on now. Neal on his journey of self-discovery, Karen, on her search for answers about her father’s suicide, and the police, who begin asking awkward questions of a man who doesn’t know who he is. another big clue is a map of Coffin road, it appears Neal was in the process of writing a book, and he feels he has done something wrong when he discovers a body. Then you have Neal’s lover. Now who is she? And what are all those bee stings about? Why, let’s have some excruciating exposition to explain and how a Swiss agribusiness is ruining the world for future tattooed, multiply pierced, dyed hair, promiscuous, ignorant wee lasses.

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This is one of the most abysmally poorly written books I've come across in a long time. I always knew the plot would be far fetched and I've read and watched enough crime fiction and drama to accept things that are hugely unlikely in the name of entertainment, but... But the story itself came from something that I’d had in my head for several years in fact. And I’d just been trying to find a way of telling the story, to do justice to the idea that I had. And the idea I had, I suppose it’s an ecological thing, it’s about bees. Which doesn’t sound like a very promising subject. Bees are essential effectively to the long-term survival of the human race, because they pollinate about 70% of the root vegetables, the crops that we eat and need to survive. And they’re dying off at an enormous rate. Basically the major problem is a particular type of pesticide which is being peddled by several of the world’s biggest agrochem producers, and who are in total denial about it.In Edinburgh, a teenage girl, Karen, is in rebellion over the suicide death of her father. She does not want to believe that he is gone even though 2 years have passed and he has not been heard from since the day his boat and a note was found out at sea. Coffin Road is the eighth stand-alone novel by British author, Peter May. A man wakes, washed up on a beach on the isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides: he doesn’t know who he is, where he is, or how he got there, but he has an overpowering feeling of dread about something that has happened. Instinctively, he does not reveal his amnesia to those around him, relying on the information he gleans from conversations and from items in his cottage to gain knowledge of who he is. Ron Rash is renowned for his writing about Appalachia, but his latest book, The Caretaker, begins ... If you like the sound of Coffin Road, you may also enjoy Peter May’s Lewis Trilogy. We reviewed the final book in that set – The Chessmen – in 2013 and you can read the article here. Coffin Road is released 14 January. Chi è Neal? Come mai non ricorda nulla del suo passato da quando si è riavuto su una spiaggia sulla quale la burrasca lo ha scaraventato? Cosa è successo prima? Chi sono le persone che mostrano di conoscerlo tanto bene?

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Any issues with the book list you are seeing? Or is there an author or series we don’t have? Let me know! MILLION-SELLING PETER MAY MIXES MURDER, MYSTERY and MEMORY . . . AND MARKS HIS RETURN TO THE OUTER HEBRIDES The light at Luskentyre is stunning. The wind is brisk but soft. The land has soaked up everything thrown at it last night by the storm. It has, it seems, an endless capacity to do so. The sky presents itself in torn strips of blue interspersed by teased-out cotton wool, and the sun reflects in countless shades of turquoise across an outgoing tide that leaves silver sands shining” Stationed at Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, DS George Gunn is sent to investigate the bludgeoned corpse discovered by tourists in the chapel on Eilean Mor. The victim is unidentified, and murder is a far from common crime in the Outer Hebrides: he wonders if this case will see him completely out of his depth.From the latest Scandinavian serial killer to Golden Age detective stories, we love our crime novels! An eminently satisfying, multilayered mystery populated with sharply drawn characters ... His images capture the capricious play of light and weather across the sea and the moors, matching the surprises in his tale. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. In 2006, Firemaker was runner up for the Best Crime Novel category in the Elle Magazine, Grand Prix de Litterature. Snakehead was the winner at the Salon Polar and Co, Cognac in the 2007 Prix Intramuros (France), and shortlisted at the Salon Polar and Co, Cognac in the 2007 Prix International as well. Chinese Whispers was shortlisted at the Salon Polar and Co, Cognac in the 2008 Prix International.