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  1. Adabroc Village or "Crobost" in Peter May's Lewis Thrillers

    Address

    Adabroc, Ness, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0TW

    Ness, Isle Of Lewis

    The fictious village "Crobost" was based on Adabroc. This is where the main character, Fin Macleod was born and brought up. "Crobost" features strongly in all four books, The Blackhouse, The Lewis Man,The Chessmen and The Black Loch.

    Add Peter May's Lewis Thrillers - Adabroc "Crobost" to your Itinerary

  2. Sheiling on the Barvas Moor

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    Barvas Moor, Barvas, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0QY

    Barvas, Isle Of Lewis

    In The Blackhouse, this sheiling on the Barvas moor, marks place where Fin's parents' car left the road as they drove home from a dance in Stornoway. The car crash was fatal and as a result the young Fin went to stay with his aunt.

    Add Peter May's Lewis Thrillers - Barvas Moor Shieling to your Itinerary

  3. Morsgail

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    Morsgail, Uig, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 9JH

    Uig, Isle Of Lewis

    In "The Chessmen", Fin and Whistler come across a disappearing loch which burst its banks and drained overnight revealing a small plane at the bottom of what would have been the loch.

    Add Peter May's Lewis Thrillers - Beehive Dwellings and Disappearing Loch to your Itinerary

  4. The new bridge to Great Bernera, Isle of Lewis

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    Great Bernera, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 9LP

    Great Bernera, Isle of Lewis

    The Bernera Bridge, known as the ‘Bridge Over the Atlantic’, links the island of Great Bernera to Lewis. The bridge is featured in The Black Loch and Fin, the main character, takes this road bridge many times throughout the novel.

    Add Peter May's Lewis Thrillers - Bernera Bridge "Bridge over the Atlantic" to your Itinerary

  5. The Bridge to Nowhere, North Tolsta, Isle of Lewis

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    Tolsta, North Tolsta, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0NL

    North Tolsta, Isle Of Lewis

    In the book The Chessmen, the Bridge to Nowhere is the dramatic location of a scooter race by between teenagers Roddy and Strings to battle out who would name the celtic rock band.

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  6. Dalmore beach

    Address

    Dalmore, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 9AD

    Dalmore, Isle of Lewis

    Dalmore beach and cemetery appear in many of Peter May’s Lewis Thrillers. Dalmore is a hamlet north of Carloway with a surf beach and a cemetery containing 18 war graves.

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  7. East Loch Roag, Isle of Lewis

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    East Loch Roag, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides

    Isle of Lewis

    Loch Roag, on the west coast of Lewis, is a vast sea loch split into East and West. The Black Loch (aka East Loch Roag), home to salmon cages, becomes a site of environmental activism and violent crime.

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  8. The house Peter May imagined to be Fin's aunts house

    Address

    Skigersta, Ness, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0TH

    Ness, Isle Of Lewis

    Overlooking the bay at Skigersta Harbour is the house that became the model for Fin's Aunt's house. His aunt who treated him well enough, but never loved him. It features in each book.

    Add Peter May's Lewis Thrillers - Fin's Aunt's House Skigersta to your Itinerary

  9. Kikibost harbour and lobster cages

    Address

    Kirkibost, Great Bernera, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 9LX

    Great Bernera, Isle of Lewis

    Kirkibost Harbour is where Baile na Mara in The Black Loch is based on.  There is a harbour where the boats are stored to service Niall’s salmon cages.

    Add Peter May's Lewis Thrillers - Kirkibost Harbour to your Itinerary

  10. Road sign of Linsiadar (Linshader), Isle of Lewis

    Address

    Linshader, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 9DR

    Linshader, Isle of Lewis

    In The Black Loch, Peter May created the Linshader estate, near Lundale (South-West Lewis) where Coinneach Smith dies by falling off the cliffs. It turns out the circumstances of this are more relevant than Fin once thought.

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  11. Lochboisdale and Ben Kenneth

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    Lochboisdale, Isle Of South Uist, Outer Hebrides, HS8 5TH

    Lochboisdale, Isle Of South Uist

    Ben Kenneth is the hill that looms over the port of Lochboisdale. The port is featured in "The Lewis Man". It is where the orphaned "homers" - Johnny, Peter and Ceit were unceremoniously deposited on the pier to meet their future families.

    Add Peter May's Lewis Thrillers - Lochboisdale Pier to your Itinerary

  12. MacNeils Bar in Stornoway

    Address

    Cromwell Street, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS1 2DA

    Stornoway, Isle of Lewis

    In The Blackhouse, MacNeil's bar on the corner of Cromwell Street and Francis Street was the scene of a fight between Fin and Murdo Ruadh, the brother of the murder victim, who had made Fin's childhood a misery

    Add Peter May's Lewis Thrillers - MacNeil's Bar and The Narrows to your Itinerary

  13. Mangersta

    Address

    Mangersta, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 9EY

    Mangersta, Isle of Lewis

    Mangersta, on the south-west coast of Lewis, is a key setting in The Black Loch. Amid stunning sea stacks, it’s where Caitlin and Iseabail uncover illegal salmon waste dumping from Niall’s farm - fuel for their environmental activism.

    Add Peter May's Lewis Thrillers - Mangersta to your Itinerary

  14. Pabbay from Reef Beach

    Address

    Pabbay, Uig, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 9HU

    Uig, Isle Of Lewis

    The caves of Pabbay, a small island just off Reef, Uig, is the location of a dramatic scene in The Chessmen. A boat chase from Ardroil, past Gallan Head, to the caves of Pabbay, ends in tragedy, with Fin and Gunn unable to prevent it.

    Add Peter May's Lewis Thrillers - Pabbay to your Itinerary

  15. Stornoway Police Station on Church St, Stornoway

    Address

    Church Street, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS1 2JD

    Stornoway, Isle of Lewis

    The police station is where Detective Fin Macleod is based on his return to the island, having left as a teenager. He is brought in to investigate the murder of Angus "Angel" Macritchie following a copycat murder he had been investigating.

    Add Peter May's Lewis Thrillers - Police Station to your Itinerary

  16. Port of Ness Harbour

    Address

    Port Of Ness, Ness, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0XA

    Ness, Isle Of Lewis

    In the "The Blackhouse", the boathouse at Port of Ness is the dramatic location where the body of Angus "Angel" Macritchie was found. Detective Fin Macleod, originally from Crobost, is sent from Edinburgh to investigate.

    Add Peter May's Lewis Thrillers - Port of Ness Harbour to your Itinerary

  17. Skigersta harbour

    Address

    Skigersta, Ness, Isle Of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0TH

    Ness, Isle Of Lewis

    Skigersta harbour features in The Blackhouse. Fin's father's boat is thought to be the purple boat. "A trick of Photoshop." says David Wilson. Fin's father was renowned for painting everything purple after finding a drum of purple paint!

    Add Peter May's Lewis Thrillers - Purple Boat at Skigersta Harbour to your Itinerary

  18. Address

    Scarista, Isle Of Harris, Outer Hebrides, HS3 3HX

    Scarista, Isle Of Harris

    In The Lewis Man, the investigation of a body found in a peat bog, sees Fin Macleod and Detective Sergeant Gunn travel south following a conversation with Tormod, Marsali's father, where they make a shocking discovery at Scarista cemetery.

    Add Peter May's Lewis Thrillers - Scarista Graveyard to your Itinerary

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