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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Waiting on Wednesday - Entry Island



This is a weekly event that highlights a book we can't wait to be published.  It's hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.

I'm very excited about this week's selection, another by an author I love, Peter May.  It's not set on Lewis Island in the Scottish Hebrides like his recent trilogy, but it does have a connection to that place.  I cannot wait until September when this book will be published here in the US (it's already available in the UK).  My anticipated book this week:





Publication Date: September 15th

When a murder rocks the isolated community of Entry Island, insomniac homicide detective Sime Mackenzie boards a light aircraft at St. Hubert airfield bound for the small, scattered chain of Madeline Islands, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, as part of an eight-officer investigation team from Montréal.

Only two kilometers wide and three long, Entry Island is home to a population of just more than 100 inhabitants, the wealthiest of whom has just been discovered murdered in his home. Covered in her husband's blood, the dead man's melancholy wife spins a tale for the police about a masked intruder armed with a knife.

The investigation appears to be little more than a formality--the evidence points to a crime of passion, implicating the wife. But Sime is electrified by the widow during his interview, convinced that he has met her before, even though this is clearly impossible.

Haunted by this strange certainty, Sime's insomnia is punctuated by vivid, hallucinatory dreams of a distant past on a Scottish island 3,000 miles away, dreams in which he and the widow play leading roles. Sime's conviction soon becomes an obsession. And despite mounting evidence of the woman's guilt, he finds himself convinced of her innocence, leading to a conflict between the professional duty he must fulfill and the personal destiny he is increasingly sure awaits him.

20 comments:

  1. Nice pick. I've got the first 2 books of May's trilogy in my reading piles. Hopefully, I can finish that series before September, in time for the new book.

    My WoW: http://www.bookclublibrarian.com/2015/04/waiting-on-wednesday-enlightenment-of.html

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    1. I love that trilogy. Glad that this one has at least a connection with Lewis Island.

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  2. I haven't read Peter May but I like the setting the the mystery plot.

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    1. Hope you'll try his Lewis Trilogy - first book is The Blackhouse.

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  3. I haven't read this author, but I love the sound of this one: the settiing, the idea of a detective convinced of the prime suspect's innocence....and that gorgeous cover. Thanks for sharing...and for visiting my blog.

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    1. I think you would like his work. From what I've read on your blogs. LOL

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  4. Aw, man! Adding this one to my TBR mountain chain. *Sigh* Why do you do this to me, Kay??!

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    1. It is my total and complete mission in life, Susan. ;-)

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  5. Hope you enjoy the book!

    My WoW: http://onceuntold.blogspot.com/2015/04/waiting-on-wednesday-hard-to-be-good.html

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  6. Well now I'm waiting on this too! This sounds great I've been wanting to try some of Peter May's books and this looks like a good one to try!

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    1. The Lewis Island trilogy is great, but since this one doesn't publish for a while, you have time to read it. LOL

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  7. I still have not had the chance to read Peter May!

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    1. Maybe one day you will. I think he's well worth it.

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  8. I've only read the first book in his trilogy but I'm sure this is an author I want to continue reading. Wonderful sense of place.

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    1. Yes, and the second in the trilogy may be my favorite. I need to hunt up his books that are set in China.

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