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Peter May was born and raised in Scotland. He was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BCC, he quit journalism and during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland's most successful television dramatists. He created three prime-time drama series, presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland as script editor and producer, and worked on more than 1,000 episodes of ratings-topping drama before deciding to leave television to return to his first love, writing novels.
He has won several literature awards in France, received the USA's Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 was awarded the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year award for Entry Island. Peter now lives in South-West France with his wife, writer Janice Hally.
He has won several literature awards in France, received the USA's Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 was awarded the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year award for Entry Island. Peter now lives in South-West France with his wife, writer Janice Hally.
Genres: Mystery, General Fiction, Thriller
New Books
Series
Yan & Campbell
1. The Firemaker (1999)
2. The Fourth Sacrifice (2000)
3. The Killing Room (2000)
4. Snakehead (2002)
5. The Runner (2003)
6. Chinese Whispers (2004)
7. The Ghost Marriage (2017)
1. The Firemaker (1999)
2. The Fourth Sacrifice (2000)
3. The Killing Room (2000)
4. Snakehead (2002)
5. The Runner (2003)
6. Chinese Whispers (2004)
7. The Ghost Marriage (2017)
Enzo Macleod Investigation
1. Extraordinary People (2006)
aka Dry Bones
2. The Critic (2007)
aka A Vintage Corpse
3. Blacklight Blue (2008)
4. Freeze Frame (2010)
5. Blowback (2011)
6. Cast Iron (2017)
7. The Night Gate (2021)
1. Extraordinary People (2006)
aka Dry Bones
2. The Critic (2007)
aka A Vintage Corpse
3. Blacklight Blue (2008)
4. Freeze Frame (2010)
5. Blowback (2011)
6. Cast Iron (2017)
7. The Night Gate (2021)
Novels
The Reporter (1978)
Fallen Hero (1979)
Hidden Faces (1981)
aka The Man With No Face
The Noble Path (1992)
Virtually Dead (2010)
Entry Island (2013)
Runaway (2015)
Coffin Road (2016)
I'll Keep You Safe (2018)
A Silent Death (2020)
Lockdown (2020)
A Winter Grave (2023)
Fallen Hero (1979)
Hidden Faces (1981)
aka The Man With No Face
The Noble Path (1992)
Virtually Dead (2010)
Entry Island (2013)
Runaway (2015)
Coffin Road (2016)
I'll Keep You Safe (2018)
A Silent Death (2020)
Lockdown (2020)
A Winter Grave (2023)
Omnibus
Collections
Bloody Scotland (2017) (with Lin Anderson, Chris Brookmyre, Ann Cleeves, Doug Johnstone, Stuart MacBride, Val McDermid, Denise Mina, Craig Robertson and Sara Sheridan)
Non fiction
Awards
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Peter May recommends
Finisterre (2016)
(Spoils of War , book 1)
Graham Hurley
"So well written you can smell the sweat and taste the fear."
Bloody January (2017)
(Harry McCoy, book 1)
Alan Parks
"1970s Glasgow hewn from flesh and drawn in blood."
Nine Lives (2022)
Peter Swanson
"With economical strokes of his pen, Peter Swanson presents us with a clever homage to the Golden Age of Mystery and keeps us guessing right to the end."
The Tick and the Tock of the Crocodile Clock (2022)
Kenny Boyle
"Very different and engagingly unique. Kenny Boyle is bristling with talent, and this may well be the best book I've read in years."
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