Entry Island (Spanish-language Edition)

by Peter May

Overview

Cuando un asesinato estremece la comunidad aislada de Entry Island, el detective de homicidios Sime Mackenzie toma una avioneta con destino a la pequeña isla en el Golfo de San Lorenzo, como parte de ocho oficiales que conforman el equipo de investigación de Montréal. Sólo dos kilómetros de ancho y tres de largo, Entry Island es el hogar de una población de poco más de 100 habitantes, donde uno de los más ricos acaba de ser descubierto asesinado en su casa. Cubierta de sangre de su marido, la esposa del hombre muerto le hace un cuento a la policía sobre un intruso enmascarado armado con un cuchillo. La investigación parece ser poco más que una formalidad - la evidencia apunta a un crimen pasional, que implica a la esposa. Pero Sime está electrificado por la viuda durante su entrevista, convencido de que la conoce de antes, a pesar de que esto es claramente imposible.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788416237111
Publisher:	PRH Grupo Editorial
Publication date:	04/30/2016
Edition description:	Spanish-language Edition
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.80(d)
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Peter May is the multi award-winning author of the internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy, set in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland; the China Thrillers, featuring Beijing detective Li Yan and American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell; and the critically acclaimed Enzo Files, featuring Scottish forensic scientist Enzo MacLeod, set in France. Entry Island won both the Deanston Scottish Crime Novel of the Year and the ITV Crime Thriller Best Read of the Year. One of Scotland's most prolific television dramatists, he garnered more than a thousand credits in fifteen years as scriptwriter and script editor on prime-time British television drama. He is the creator of three major television drama series and presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland before quitting television to concentrate on his first love, writing novels. May lives in France with his wife, the writer Janice Hally.

Editorial Reviews

"A Gordian-knotted plot . . . The final result is a fascinating glimpse into a shameful and frequently overlooked aspect of British history. The author has followed the ties that spread out from the Hebrides to the strong Scottish Gaelic-speaking communities on North America's eastern seaboard and used them to embellish a modern murder mystery."—The Independent
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May is the master of painting a vivid picture of his chosen landscapes and weaving a fascinating plot. The research he has packed in to this well-paced dual tale is impressive . . . An absorbing read from a writer at the top of his game."
—Daily Express
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Breathes fresh life into his writing while allowing many of the themes he likes to explore, such as secrets from the past that carry through to the present, to be revisited."—Crimepieces"

For those who enjoy a historical and social context—I have no hesitation in recommending Entry Island as an exciting, absorbing and moving story."—Lynn Harvey, Eurocrime"

May follows his superb Lewis trilogy with an equally absorbing work . . . Mackenzie's historical quest merges rivetingly with his 21st century police work."—Marcel Berlins, The Times"

Told with exceptional clarity and a fine eye for the claustrophobia of island life, it weaves a hypnotic spell as it jumps between generations and proves that May is a writer to be cherished."—Geoffrey Wansell, The Daily Mail"

Fans of May's Lewis trilogy (The Chessmen, etc.) will welcome this solid standalone, which likewise involves crime on an isolated island . . . 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."—Publishers Weekly"

This is a tale of two islands, two mysteries, and two places and times. A tale of misfits isolated within their own cultures, and a tale of cultures battling each other, both in the 1800s and today."—Suspense Magazine"

A police procedural with elements of romance plus a healthy infusion of historical fiction. That it works so well is owing to May's ability to create atmosphere you can cut with a dirk and to his storytelling prowess that sweeps all before it."—Library Journal"

May skillfully braids his two story lines into both a gripping mystery and a vivid, fully realized novel of lost love, yearning, and unbearable hardship."—Seattle Times"

Fascinating history. May is wonderful at atmosphere."—Booklist"

Crime stories and social commentary have been inseparable since the very beginning of the genre . . . But few have mastered the blend as well as Peter May."
—Maclean's

From the Publisher

2015-07-01
A Montreal cop reeling from his divorce confronts ancestral tragedy when he's sent to investigate a murder on a remote island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Sime (pronounced Sheem, and Scots Gaelic for Simon) Mackenzie is called to the stark setting to investigate the murder of a local businessman. No one quite believes the victim's wife's claim that she was startled by an intruder and her husband was killed in the struggle. The investigative team, including Sime's ex, Marie-Ange, appears to be merely marking time until they can formerly charge the newly minted widow. But something in the woman stirs Sime's memory, though they haven't met, and the disappearance of a local man makes it harder for this haggard policeman to accept his colleagues' foregone conclusion. May (The Blackhouse, 2011, etc.) has constructed the book so that the investigation alternates with an account of one of Sime's ancestors and his forced repatriation from Glasgow to Canada. As in the contemporary sections, the plotting is clunky, much of the writing is expository, and what's meant to be descriptive too often feels as if the reader has opened the encyclopedia to an entry on Scottish agriculture of the 18th century ("the thatch from the roof, blackened and thick with the sticky residue of peat soot, that we laid on the lazy beds with kelp to feed the potatoes"). Bleak settings needn't be drab—Emily Brontë knew that. But May's transplanted Scots have given up the gloaming for the gloomy.

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