Order of Peter May Books
Peter May is a Scottish author of crime fiction, mystery and thriller novels, in addition to writing television and being a former journalist. Growing up in Glasgow, Peter’s goal was to become a novelist from an early age. Before he was able to achieve that goal, he became a journalist in order to pay the bills. He won Scotland’s Young Journalist of the Year Award when he was 21 and wrote for The Scotsman and the Glasgow Evening Times. He left journalism in 1978 in order to write television and created several TV shows for the BBC and for Scottish television. As a novelist, he writes the China Thrillers and Enzo Files series.
Peter’s first novel was The Reporter, which he adapted to television for the BBC as The Standard. Below is a list of Peter May’s novels in order of when they were originally released:
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Publication Order of The China Thrillers Books
| The Firemaker | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Fourth Sacrifice | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Killing Room | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Snakehead | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Runner | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Chinese Whispers | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Ghost Marriage | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Enzo Files Books
| Extraordinary People / Dry Bones | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Critic / A Vintage Corpse | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Blacklight Blue | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Freeze Frame | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Blowback | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cast Iron | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Night Gate | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Lewis Trilogy Books
| The Blackhouse | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lewis Man | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Chessmen | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Black Loch | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Reporter | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fallen Hero | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Man with No Face / Hidden Faces | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Noble Path | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Virtually Dead | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Entry Island | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Runaway | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Coffin Road | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| I'll Keep You Safe | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Silent Death | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lockdown | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Winter Grave | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Hebrides | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Notes: Extraordinary People was also published as Dry Bones. The Critic is also known as A Vintage Corpse. Hidden Faces was also published under the title The Man With No Face.
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Peter May Synopses: In Peter May’s standalone novel The Noble Path, a wealthy refugee from Cambodia requests help from a suicidal British soldier Jack Elliot in order to rescue his wife and children from Khmer Rouge. Elliot accepts the task on the hopes that he will be killed in the midst of the mission.
The Blackhouse is the first novel in Peter May’s Lewis Trilogy – a mystery series set on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. A murder occurs on the island that resembles a murder on the mainland, so Edinburgh investigator Fin Macleod wants to know if the two are actually connected. Fin is from the island himself, so this is his return after almost two decades, and it also digs up some bad memories of his past.
Second in May’s Lewis Trilogy is The Lewis Man. Fin finds a body which comes up as a DNA sibling match to Tormod Macdonald, an old man with dementia. However, Macdonald had always believed he was an only child. The Macdonald family looks to Fin Macleod for help in finding out the truth.
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I am surprised that you do not mention Ann Cleeves in your list of favourite authors. We have a hard time getting her novels from our local library as they are always out on loan. She writes wonderful stories about northern England and Scotland several of which have been made into TV series.
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