The creator of the Enzo Files and the haunting Lewis trilogy, Scottish-born novelist Peter May has also written and produced top-rated drama series for British television, and been awarded the CEZAM Prix Litteraire—the national literature award in his adopted home of France.

Fin Macleod has returned to the wind-scoured Hebridean island of Lewis where he was born, in this second book of the Lewis trilogy, following the Barry Award winner The Blackhouse. Having left behind his wife, his police career, and his life in Edinburgh, the former inspector is intent on repairing past relationships and restoring his parents' derelict cottage. Then the mummified body of a man is found in a peat bog, seemingly stabbed to death more than 2,000 years ago—until the police spot the Elvis tattoo on his right arm. The starkly beautiful landscape of the Outer Hebrides becomes almost a character itself in this series, rendered in unforgettable detail.