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Pabbay Hebrides, Hebridean Light. He lives on Lewis. Hebrides, Hebridean Light. He lives He has published a photographic book on theHe has published a photographic years and was the production designer for Machair. for Machair. years and was the production designer the age of just twenty-one. He left newspapers just twenty-one. the age of screenwriting, becoming onefor television and for twentyDavid Wilson worked with the BBC Photographer David Wilson Peter May was an award-winning journalist at journalist was an award-winning Peter May Author Peter May Author Peter writing novels. France where he focuses on his first love France where he − In brief In in , he now lives inBorn and raised

garnering more than 1000 credits in 15 yearsgarnering more than drama. British television of Scotland’s most prolific dramatists and of Scotland’s script editor for prime-timeas scriptwriter and intimate, and possessor of a long-buried secret. But when him with Whistler Macaskill - a local poacher, Fin’s teenage Fin’s him with Whistler Macaskill - a local poacher, elderly man suffering from dementia - has always claimed elderly man suffering The Chessmen Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned This mission reunites game-hunting taking place on the island. the only clue to its identity being a DNA sibling match to a the only clue to its identity being a DNA Macdonald - now an Tormod But this islander, local farmer. family approach Fin Tormod’s to be an only child. When Macleod for help, Fin feels duty-bound to solve the mystery. Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal this reunion takes a violent, sinister turn and Fin puts together the fractured pieces of the past, he realises that revealing the truth could destroy the future.

begin to surface, and soon he, the hunter, becomes the hunted. begin to surface, and soon he, the hunter, An unidentified corpse is recovered from a Lewis peat bog; Something sinister. A TRAP. As Fin investigates, old skeletonsAs Fin investigates, TRAP. A Something sinister. The Lewis Man Something lurks within the close-knit island community. Something lurks within the close-knit island community. represents a journey both home and into his past. A SECRET. SECRET. A represents a journey both home and into his past. Edinburgh to investigate. For Lewis-born Macleod, the case a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith. MURDER. Detective Inspector Fin Macleod is sent from A A brutal killing takes place on the , Scotland: A locations in the chain of islands. The Blackhouse explore and discover the inspirational of May’s protagonist Fin Macleod, as protagonist theyof May’s Wilson, readers can trace the footsteps book ‘Hebrides’, by Peter May and David book ‘Hebrides’, Using images and excerpts from the character of Peter May’s Lewis trilogy. Lewis trilogy. character of Peter May’s lonely beaches, has become a definitive with its stark cliffs, ghostly mists and The landscape of the Outer Hebrides, 7 Purple Boat at Locations Harbour 58° 28’ 33.168” N 6° 12’ 32.031” W Skigersta harbour features in 1 The Church and The Blackhouse. Fin’s father’s 14 boat is thought to be the purple Manse, Cross boat. “A trick of Photoshop.” says 58° 28’ 35.982” N David Wilson. Fin’s father was Bridge to Nowhere 6° 16’ 33.973” W renowned for painting everything purple after finding a drum of 58° 22’ 20.067” N The Free Church of Scotland purple paint! 6° 12’ 50.354” W Church and Manse buildings In the book The Chessmen, at Cross were the models for the Bridge to Nowhere is the the fictitious “Crobost” Church dramatic location of a scooter and Manse. In all three books 8 Beehive Dwellings and race by between teenagers The Blackhouse, The Lewis Roddy and Strings to battle Man and The Chessmen the Disappearing Loch out who would name the celtic church and minister Donald 58° 6’ 52.332” N rock band. feature strongly. 6° 51’ 55.873” W In The Chessmen, Fin and Whistler come across a Whistler’s House 15 2 disappearing loch which burst MacNeil’s Bar its banks and drained overnight and The Narrows revealing a small plane at the 58° 10’ 43.8594” N bottom of what would have 58° 12’ 29.351” N been the loch. 7° 2’ 27.708” W 6° 23’ 21.072” W In The Chessmen, Whistler’s house is thought to be an old In The Blackhouse, MacNeil’s converted blackhouse with its bar on the corner of Cromwell 9 Sollas Beach tin roof and Suaineabhal Street and Francis Street was 57° 39’ 12.154” N rising behind it, overlooking the scene of a fight between 7° 19’ 31.834” W Ardroil Bay. Whistler was a Fin and Murdo Ruadh, the teenage friend of Fin’s made brother of the murder victim, Sollas beach in North Uist, whilst at school in . who had made Fin’s childhood where light aircraft occasionally a misery. land, was the location of a dramatic scene involving drug smuggling which was featured 16 in the book The Chessmen. Scarista Graveyard 57° 50’ 16.023” N Pabbay 3 7° 0’ 36.912” W 10 58° 13’ 25.891” N Lochboisdale Pier In The Lewis Man, the 57° 9’ 8.590” N investigation of a body 6° 57’ 15.332” W found in a peat bog, sees The caves of Pabbay, a small 7° 18’ 17.353” W Fin Macleod and Detective island just off Reef, Uig, is the Ben Kenneth is the hill that looms Sergeant Gunn travel south location of a dramatic scene in over the port of Lochboisdale. The following a conversation The Chessmen. A boat chase port is featured in The Lewis Man. with Tormod, Marsali’s father, from Ardroil, past Gallan It is where the orphaned “homers” where they make a shocking Head, to the caves of Pabbay, - Johnny, Peter and Ceit - were discovery at Scarista cemetery. ends in tragedy, with Fin and unceremoniously deposited on the Gunn unable to prevent it. pier to meet their future families.

4 Johnny’s House Moor Shieling Adabroc 17 57° 5’ 17.894” N 58° 19’ 7.680” N 6° 26’ 52.044” W “Crobost” 7° 17’ 24.208” W In The Blackhouse, this shieling on the Barvas moor, marks the place 58° 28’ 55.596” N where Fin’s parents’ car left the road as they drove home from a In The Lewis Man, the house 6° 13’ 45.696” W near the end of the road at dance in Stornoway. The crash was fatal and so Fin went to stay Bun a’Mhuillinn, is where with his aunt in her cold and miserable house. The fictious village “Crobost” Johnny and his brother Peter was based on Adabroc. This lived. They had come from 11 is where the main character, an orphanage, were brought Fin Macleod was born and to South Uist by the Catholic brought up. “Crobost” features Church and “boarded out” strongly in all three books, to a family in Eriskay. The Blackhouse, The Lewis Man and The Chessmen.

Police Station 5 13 58° 12’ 36.665” N 7 6° 23’ 14.496” W 17 1 12 The police station is where N 11 14 Detective Fin Macleod is Lewis based on his return to the 5 island, having left as a 3 2 teenager. He is brought in 12 Fin’s Aunt’s House 15 to investigate the murder of Angus “Angel” Macritchie Skigersta 8 following a copycat murder 58° 28’ 33.168” N he had been investigating. 6° 12’ 32.031” W Overlooking the bay at Skigersta Harbour is the house that 16 Ceit’s (Catherine’s) House Eriskay became the model for Fin’s 57° 5’ 9.136” N 7° 18’ 1.931” W Aunt’s house. His aunt who treated him well enough, but Harris In The Lewis Man, the Old Post Office that overlooks Haun never loved him. It features in 9 harbour in Eriskay, is where the young Ceit lived. Ceit had come each book, The Blackhouse, The from an orphanage, was brought to South Uist by the Catholic Lewis Man and The Chessmen. Church and “boarded out” to the O’Henley family in Eriskay.

6 North Uist Port of Ness 13 Harbour 58° 30’ 55.071” N

6° 15’ 39.149” W South Uist 10 In the The Blackhouse, the 4

boathouse at Port of Ness is the dramatic location where 6 the body of Angus “Angel” Eriskay Macritchie was found. Detective Barra Fin Macleod, originally from Crobost, is sent from Edinburgh This leaflet has been produced to investigate. Fin knows the

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