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  • By: Peter May
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  • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (212 ratings)

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By: Peter May
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A man stands bewildered on a deserted beach on the Hebridean Isle of Harris. He cannot remember who he is. The only clue to his identity is a folded map of a path named the Coffin Road. He does not know where this search will take him. 

A detective from Lewis sits aboard a boat, filled with doubt. DS George Gunn knows that a bludgeoned corpse has been discovered on a remote rock 20 miles offshore. He does not know if he has what it takes to uncover how and why. 

A teenage girl lies in her Edinburgh bedroom, desperate to discover the truth about her scientist father’s suicide. Two years on, Karen Fleming still cannot accept that he would wilfully abandon her. She does not yet know his secret. 

Coffin Road follows three perilous journeys towards one shocking truth - and the realisation that ignorance can kill us. 

©2016 Peter May (P)2016 Quercus Editions Ltd.

Critic Reviews

"He is a terrific writer doing something different." (Mark Billingham)
"Wonderfully compelling." (Kate Mosse)
"From the first page I knew I was in safe hands. I knew I could trust this writer." (Sophie Hannah)
"Will have the reader relishing every tendency of description and characterization." ( Independent)
"May's novels are strong on place and the wounds left by old relationships." ( Sunday Times)
"Peter May is a writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth." ( New York Times)
"Exceptional. May is going from strength to strength." ( Daily Mail)

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Fantastically read

Great book that pulls you in from the first page. Also about a topic i feel very strongly about. Thoroughly enjoyable read

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Interesting but sometimes confusing plot

This book draws the reader along fast and reasonably effectively: it is a good book to pass the time. The plot at one point is quite convoluted and if I were reading rather than listening I would have been looking back a lot to earlier pages. As it was I did get a bit confused (as did other readers if internet forums are to be believed).

As I have read most of Peter May's books my expectations are calibrated: fair characterisation and prose, and a good engagement with the physical area and history surrounding the plot.

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Wonderful story

Wonderful and interesting storyline. Very on topic now within farming communities. A very good read.

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Another fantastic book by Peter May

Peter Forbes does a fantastic job narrating this complex, intriguing and fascinating storyline.
One is transported to an irresistible part of the world, kept on the edge of their seat throughout and enlightened by how we are destroying our environment. I couldn't put it down!

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fantastic reader and complex suspense

loved this book
intelligent and complex suspense that continued to unfold till the last sentence

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On the whole worth listening to

This was one of his better stories. Setting was fantastic and so was the performance. Some of the many characters were a bit confusing, but still worth listening to

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Coffin Road

Brilliant plot, beautiful descriptive writing!! I can't wait to read my next Peter May book.

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One of the very best mysteries...

Absolutely one of the best of Peter May's books in my opinion - and I've read or listened to them all! writing from the view point of one who has lost his memory adds a further perspective. The research before writing this book seems to be thorough and the end reveal unexpected. Well done - high recommendation.

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Excellent, as usual.

Peter May excels in this setting. It's almost as if you were there. More of these please, leave Europe to other writers.

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Not up to the standard of the Lewis Trilogy

I loved the Lewis Trilogy books, and was hoping for more of the same gritty and compelling Hebridean stories, but Coffin Road is a let down by comparison. The plot is needlessly contorted, and none of the characters are particularly likeable - except for DS George Gunn (who we don’t see enough of) and Bran the excitable Labrador. The amnesia device used to create much of the drama is a bit irritating; I found it hard to believe that someone who woke up with no memory of himself would not seek out help, at least medical help. And the main character just annoyed me by lying to the police, but trusting the repellant Sally.

Peter Forbes is brilliant as the reader, but overall..... Bring back Fin MacLeod!

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