Cast Iron: The red-hot finale to the cold-case Enzo series (Enzo 6) (The Enzo Files): The red-hot penultimate case of the Enzo series (The Enzo Files Book 6)

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I think that Peter May really have a talent for creating interesting characters and the Scottish-Italian Enzo Macload is a really fascinating character. He is a very good forensic expert with a very messy family situation. A baby with a woman that seems to loathe him (for some unknown reason), two daughters, Kristy who has a child with Raffin and Sophie who is not really his daughter after they found out that Enzo's ex-wife had an affair with his best friend. So, Enzo must also deal with a lot of personal stuff during the books progress. In an elegant apartment in Paris, forensic expert Enzo Macleod pores over the scant evidence of this, the sixth cold case he has been challenged to solve. In taking on this old and seemingly impossible task he will put everything and everyone he holds dear in a peril he could never have imagined.

International Thriller Writers Magazine article about Peter May's 'Virtually Dead' ". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011 . Retrieved 10 May 2010. My researches also took me to Bordeaux in west France. This was a research trip of some contrasts, leading me to the ultra-modern Palais de Justice during the day, and the bars and dark and seedy streets of the city’s red light district at night – providing me with insights into the city which I had never had on previous trips. In the second novel in the China series, Li Yan and Margaret Campbell are reluctantly reunited, on the trail of a killer reenacting a series of gruesome rituals The plot is fast paced and full of twists and turns, as Enzo finds many of those around him are keeping secrets and someone seems to want him dead or at least to stop his investigation. As Enzo uses good old fashioned police work to investigate his case, the plot becomes more complex as further crimes come to light and nothing seems to fit. This will hook you in and keep you second guessing until all finally becomes clear and the pieces fall into place. An enjoyable thriller, probably most satisfying if you have read the rest of the series but it also works well as a stand alone novel.Peter May lives in France and his China Thrillers have received several nominations for awards in that country. In 2007 he won the Prix Intramuros. [12] This prize is unique in France as it is awarded by juries of readers made up of prisoners in French penitentiaries. The books under consideration are reduced to a shortlist of 6 finalists and the authors of the shortlisted books then have to travel to various French prisons to be interviewed by panels of detainees. [12] In 2007, May was the only non-French author in the shortlist. He received the prize at the annual Polar&Co literary festival in Cognac. [13] I hope my relatively lukewarm review won't put people off trying this series. Even with favourite authors, we all prefer some of their stuff to others, but any Peter May book is still head and shoulders above most of the competition. And this is as well-written and strongly plotted as always, while the French setting gives it an added level of interest. So, despite my personal reservations, I still recommend the series, especially if the complicated family relationships aspect appeals to you. Seven years on and the mystery still raw, Enzo Macleod, forensic investigator, forays into the heated world of haute cuisine to uncover bitter feuds and a burning secret. There's no way Li can misinterpret the Ripper's motives: he wants to tear Li and Campbell's lives apart, and write the darkest chapter in Beijing's history.

Take The High Road ( Scottish Television 1980 – 1992) writer (200+ episodes), story & script editor (700+ episodes). Grand Prix des Lecteurs du Télégramme [43] (2012) L'Homme de Lewis (The Lewis Man) winner of the Prix des Lecteurs du Télégramme, 10,000 Euro Readers' Prize of French daily newspaper. [44]Detective Li Yan is determined to discover just how one of the victims in particular, an American diplomat, became caught up in the slaying. And he is arguably even more determined to have nothing to do with Campbell. Mei Ling is a formidable woman: a fact that is not lost on Li's on-off lover, forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. But when Campbell, vulnerable and still grieving the loss of her father, learns that the victims were subjected to 'live' autopsies, she knows the case is bigger than her pride.