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February's Author of the Month: PETER MAY

Tuesday, Feb 02, 2016 at 1:29pm

Peter May is the multi award-winning author of the Lewis Trilogy set in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland; the China Thrillers, featuring Beijing detective Li Yan and American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell; the Enzo Files which is set in France but features Scottish forensic scientist Enzo MacLeod; and several stand-alone books, including the multi award-winning Entry Island which he published in 2014. One of Scotland’s  most prolific television dramatists, May garnered more than 1000 credits in 15 years as scriptwriter and script editor on prime-time British television drama. He is the creator of three major television series and presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland before quitting television to concentrate on his first love, writing novels.

His latest standalone is Runaway, a tense crime thriller spanning a half-century of friendships set against the backdrop of two unique cities, Glasgow and London, at two transformational periods of recent history. When five teenage boys leave their homes in Glasgow in 1965 and head for London to pursue fame and fortune as a band, they discover the reality to be devastatingly different from their dreams. Fifty years later a brutal murder forces three of the boys, now in their sixties, to return to London to confront the demons which have haunted them and blighted their lives for five decades.

(Runaway will be released on February 9th, 2016. Contact your nearest McNally Robinson to arrange a pre-order.)

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