Entry Island
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4.8 • 4 Ratings
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- 65,00 kr
Publisher Description
IF YOU FLEE FATE...
When Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island, 850 miles from the Canadian mainland, he leaves behind him a life of sleeplessness and regret.
FATE WILL FIND YOU...
But what had initially seemed an open-and-shut case takes on a disturbing dimension when he meets the prime suspect, the victim's wife, and is convinced that he knows her - even though they have never met.
And when his insomnia becomes punctuated by dreams of a distant Scottish past in another century, this murder in the Gulf of St. Lawrence leads him down a path he could never have foreseen, forcing him to face a conflict between his professional duty and his personal destiny.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Fans of May's Lewis trilogy (The Chessmen, etc.) will welcome this solid standalone, which likewise involves crime on an isolated island. When the Montreal police learn of a murder on Entry Island, an English-speaking outpost of the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Det. Sime Mackenzie reluctantly joins his murder-squad teammates on the long flight east. Conveniently, Mackenzie, who's deep into a bout of insomnia stemming from the recent dissolution of his marriage, is the only one fluent in French and English. On the island, wealthy businessman James Cowell is dead, allegedly stabbed by an intruder who tried to attack Cowell's wife, Kirsty. Mackenzie is unusually drawn to Kirsty, a native islander who hasn't left Entry in 10 years; he's positive he's met her before. Mackenzie's dreams of 19th-century Scottish crofters (farmers) and their doomed struggle with powerful landowners, a conflict known as the Highland Clearances, which directly affected his ancestors and perhaps Kirsty's, too, provide a powerful counterpoint to the present-day story line.
Customer Reviews
Entry Island
People tend to only think of African as victims of loss of their land, their culture, their heritance. We, whom read a bit more, now that this happened and are still happening troughout the world to this day in many shapes. The destiny of the people of Irish I knew of but not the Scots from the Outer Hebrideans. And there are more as I write, still happening around us but modern human pretend it does not exist until they occasionally have an impact with it one way or the other. Etnic cleaning is horrible and disgusting but the sale of people, young or adult for labour living as a slave or sexindustry or organdonor blackmarket by greedy people with no souls are beyond words to describe. I do not believe in heaven or hell but if there was such an afterlife as religious people claim I would think Hell was not horrible enough punishment for people like the salesmen of human flesh and blood. The book is a real tribute to our descendants and the struggle they had in the aftermath of landlords greed and inhumanity towards people whom had lived there for centuries before the battle of Culloden and the way the English treated the Scots. I envy those children nursed and cared for whom yet does´nt know anything about the ugliness in the world and my heart and tears goes to those born in poverty and likely will be exploited one way or the other to satisfy a greedy father (arranged marriage) or worse, the criminal people of the world. Mr May writes books that make me think and understand on a deeper level every time I open a new one. We need May´s in the world to reveal the utter ugliness in mankind to all ignorant people are forced to see. So, read and tell people to buy, borrow and read themselves. And reflect.
Kikki Brill