The chessmen

Description:

Ex-Detective Inspector Fin McLeod discovers a light aircraft at the bottom of a spontaneously drained loch while investigating illegal activity on the estate of a poacher and former childhood friend. Sequel to: The Lewis man. Living again of the Isle of Lewis, ex-Detective Inspector Fin McLeod is working as a security officer for a local landowner. While investigating illegal activity on the estate Fin encounters the elusive poacher and former childhood friend Whistler Macaskill. They witness a freak natural phenomenon-- a 'Bog Burst'-- which spontaneously drains a loch of its water, revealing a mud-encased light aircraft. Inside is the body of Roddy Mackenzie, a friend whose flight disappeared more than seventeen years before. Fin is unprepared for how the truth about the past will alter the course of the future.

subjects: Fin Macleod (Fictitious character),  Skönlitteratur,  Fiction,  Kriminalroman,  Private investigators,  Poaching,  Investigation,  Islands,  Murder,  Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural,  Fiction, crime,  Scotland, fiction

Places: Scotland,  Hebrides (Scotland),  Lewis with Harris Island (Scotland)