Peter May
Enzo MacLeod, a Scot who is teaching forensics at Cahors in southwest France, confidently bet that he could use his expertise to crack seven notorious murders described in a book on cold cases by Parisian journalist Roger Raffin.
Enzo has in fact solved the first two crimes. But the third is far from his mind at the moment. He's just been diagnosed with a terminal illness, and now it appears he's the target of someone intent on destroying his
..."AN EXCELLENT THRILLER." —KIRKUS REVIEWS
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SUFFOCATEDA vehicle crammed with dozens of dead Chinese immigrants is found in southern Texas. Forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell must put aside her horror and find out why.
SUMMONED
Detective Li Yan—an
"AN ELECTRIFYING MIXTURE OF MYSTERY, ROMANCE, AND HISTORY." —Kirkus Reviews
"MAY'S WELL-PLOTTED FOLLOW UP... AMPLIFIES HIS VIVID PICTURE OF A CHAOTIC, VITAL MODERN-DAY CHINA" —Publishers Weekly
Li Yan and Margaret Campbell are reluctantly reunited, this time to track down a killer reenacting a series of gruesome rituals.
The Chinese police have once more been
"A SKILLED STORYTELLER WHO KNOWS HOW TO SERVE UP VIVID NARRATIVES, ROMANTIC ADVENTURES, COMPELLING CHARACTERIZATIONS, RIVETING PLOTS AND INTRIGUING VIEWS OF MODERN DAY CHINA." —BookLoons
"A BRISK, SOLIDLY PLOTTED POLICE PROCEDURAL, WITH LOTS OF GRITTY FORENSIC DETAILS." —Mystery Scene Magazine
Detective Li Yan and forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell travel to Shanghai,
..."A finely crafted and surprising mystery" —Kirkus Reviews
The body of Gil Petty, America's most celebrated wine critic, is found strung up in a French Gaillac vineyard, dressed in the ceremonial robes of the Order of the Divine Bottle and pickled in wine.
For forensic expert Enzo Macleod, the key to this unsolved murder...
8) Freeze Frame
A long-ago promise made to a dying man leads forensics ace Enzo Macleod, a Scot who's been teaching in France for many years, to the study of a man murdered nearly twenty years ago. The study has been preserved, untouched, since the man's murder. The dead man left several clues there designed to reveal his killer's identity to his son, but ironically the son died soon after the father and never saw his father's message.
So begins the fourth of
...10) Dry Bones
What has happened to Jacques Gaillard? The brilliant teacher who trained some of France's best and brightest at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration as future Prime Ministers and Presidents vanished ten years ago, presumably from Paris. Talk about your cold case. The mystery inspires a bet, one that Enzo Macleod, a biologist teaching in Toulouse instead of pursuing a brilliant career in forensics back home in Scotland can ill afford to lose. The
...11) The Lewis man
12) Vintage Corpse
Gil Petty, the world's number one wine critic, went missing during a tasting tour of the little-known wine region of Gaillac. Three years ago, his body was discovered strung up on a cross in a vineyard in southwest France.
Dressed in the ceremonial crimson robes of the Brotherhood of the Order of the Divine Bottle (an ancient society dedicated to promoting Gaillac wine), the semi-decayed body had been preserved in red wine before being planted
...13) Coffin road
IN THE FIRST BOOK OF PETER MAY'S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ENZO FILES, FORENSICS EXPERT ENZO MACLEOD WAGERS THAT HE CAN SOLVE SIX PERPLEXING COLD CASES—AND UNEXPECTEDLY PLACES HIMSELF DIRECTLY IN HARM'S WAY.
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"THOROUGHLY ENGAGING." —LIBRARY JOURNAL
15) Virtually Dead
Crime-scene photographer Michael Kapinsky is a man whose first life is in a mess. But his second life is about to get a whole lot messier.
Staggering under the financial burden bequeathed him by his recently deceased wife, Michael is also struggling to come to terms with her death. To help, Michael's psychologist persuades him to participate in a new kind of group therapy, a virtual world called Second Life. Once there, in the persona of
...16) Blowback
17) The firemaker
The first of Peter May's electrifying China Thrillers, featuring Beijing detective Li Yan and American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell—and the explosive chemistry between them.
"Stunningly original." —Scotland on Sunday
"Highly recommended." —Larry Gandle, Deadly Pleasures
"A fascinating look at the new China." —Kirkus Reviews