I'll Keep You Safe
A stunning standalone crime thriller from the incredible mind behind The Lewis Trilogy
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4.0 • 63 Ratings
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- $6.99
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Publisher Description
THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY, THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERS
AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021
A stunning standalone thriller from Peter May, alternating between the glamorous fashion world of Paris and the rugged beauty of the Isle of Harris.
WHATEVER HAPPENS
Niamh and Ruairidh Macfarlane co-own the Hebridean company Ranish Tweed. On a business trip to Paris to promote their luxury brand, Niamh learns of Ruairidh's affair, and then looks on as he and his lover are killed by a car bomb. She returns home to Lewis, bereft.
I'LL ALWAYS BE THERE FOR YOU
Niamh begins to look back on her life with Ruairidh, desperate to identify anyone who may have held a grudge against him. The French police, meanwhile, have ruled out terrorism, and ruled in murder - and sent Detective Sylvie Braque to shadow their prime suspect: Niamh.
I'LL KEEP YOU SAFE, NO MATTER WHAT
As one woman works back through her memories, and the other moves forward with her investigation, the two draw ever closer to a deadly enemy with their own, murderous, designs.
'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.' Undiscovered Scotland
'No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel than Peter May.' New York Journal of Books
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This competent standalone from May (Coffin Road) takes Niamh and Ruaridh, a married couple who own a small cloth business on the Isle of Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides, to Paris, where they plan to exhibit their woven tweed fabric at a high-fashion trade show. At their Paris hotel, Niamh confronts Ruaridh over what she thinks is his affair with Irina Vetrov, a Russian fashion designer. In the wake of their argument, Ruaridh storms out of their room and goes downstairs, where he meets Irina. The pair drive off in Irina's car, which explodes in a ball of flame a short time later. Initially a prime suspect in Ruaridh's murder, Niamh returns to the Hebrides, while the Paris police and their local Scottish counterparts pursue the killer. After an attempt on her life back home, Niamh parses her sometimes terrible memories of life on the Isle of Lewis and Harris to figure out the source of this threat. Vibrant details of the weaving trade, the Gaelic language, and Hebrides culture help compensate for a murder mystery with few surprises and a closing twist that's telegraphed for miles.
Customer Reviews
I’ll keep you safe
A really good story. It rivals the black houses series.
I’ll keep you safe by Peter May
It took a while to get into it, then I liked it. I did figure out early who the murderess was.
( Can’t remember how to spell the names).
But once the husband revealed himself to be alive and hiding and spying on everyone , which was a selfish and cowardly thing to do, considering the pain and grief he put his wife and family through, the author rushed through the ending as if he realized his deadline was only 10 minutes away. If you’re going to write a book, finish it!
Not to mention, that with all we learned about the French cop and her struggles juggling family and work, once she was brutally murdered, not another word. And she was, perhaps, the most sympathetic character in the book. Don’t know what happened with the local cop either. The ending of the book was a huge disappointment. Mr. May needs to work on his endings, otherwise, I have little incentive to read another of his books.
A poor addition to the Hebrides series
Other than a peek into the interesting world of Scottish textiles, this book has nothing to recommend it. I have enjoyed many Peter May books, but this read more like an improbable movie script than his earlier well drawn novels. Instead of an interesting character, there were repeated demonstrations of grief that only made her look weak, dependent, and lacking in resources. The end was seemed to contain too many cliches to count. There are too many good May books to waste your time on this one.