HomeUnited KingdomCrime author on how the ‘shocking reality’ of fish farming inspired his novel. Writer Peter May has come out of retirement to revisit his acclaimed Lewis Trilogy – something he vowed never to do.
Crime author on how the ‘shocking reality’ of fish farming inspired his novel. Writer Peter May has come out of retirement to revisit his acclaimed Lewis Trilogy – something he vowed never to do.
September 14, 2024
Crime author on how the ‘shocking reality’ of fish farming inspired his novel. Writer Peter May has come out of retirement to revisit his acclaimed Lewis Trilogy – something he vowed never to do.
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“Despite spending years saying he would not return to the trilogy or the characters, Peter, now 72, has relented with his new thriller, The Black Loch, picking up Fin’s story 12 years after the end of The Chessmen. He says: “People have been on at me for years to write more about Fin and Marsaili, and to set it on the island.
“I had always said ‘I have told their story, I’ve been there and done that, and I am moving on’.
“But after 12 years there was more story to tell. That is the only reason I went back to it.”
The Glasgow-born author said three years ago he did not think he would write another novel, preferring to make music in his studio at his manor house in south-west France.
This changed 10 months later when he watched global leaders renege on their promise to prevent a climate crisis at Cop 26 in Glasgow.
That inspired last year’s A Winter’s Grave, a murder mystery set in the Scottish Highlands in 2051, with much of Britain under water.
Before the pandemic Peter visited the Nor-wegian archipelago Svalbard on a research trip, thinking of writing about climate change there and potentially using Fin Macleod and his son Fionnlagh as it’s protagonists.
He says: “Having dealt with climate change in A Winter’s Grave, the Fin and Fionnlagh element was in my head and it would not go away. It kept bugging me – it was like a worm wriggling around and it would not let me go.””
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“Despite spending years saying he would not return to the trilogy or the characters, Peter, now 72, has relented with his new thriller, The Black Loch, picking up Fin’s story 12 years after the end of The Chessmen. He says: “People have been on at me for years to write more about Fin and Marsaili, and to set it on the island.
“I had always said ‘I have told their story, I’ve been there and done that, and I am moving on’.
“But after 12 years there was more story to tell. That is the only reason I went back to it.”
The Glasgow-born author said three years ago he did not think he would write another novel, preferring to make music in his studio at his manor house in south-west France.
This changed 10 months later when he watched global leaders renege on their promise to prevent a climate crisis at Cop 26 in Glasgow.
That inspired last year’s A Winter’s Grave, a murder mystery set in the Scottish Highlands in 2051, with much of Britain under water.
Before the pandemic Peter visited the Nor-wegian archipelago Svalbard on a research trip, thinking of writing about climate change there and potentially using Fin Macleod and his son Fionnlagh as it’s protagonists.
He says: “Having dealt with climate change in A Winter’s Grave, the Fin and Fionnlagh element was in my head and it would not go away. It kept bugging me – it was like a worm wriggling around and it would not let me go.””
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Pension not going so well?
Just kidding, I have no idea who this guy is!