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Number of results: 17
Ness, Isle Of Lewis
Adabroc was based on the fictious village "Crobost", where Fin was born and brought up.
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.
Uig, Isle Of Lewis
Photograph © David Wilson
In the book The Chessmen, Fin has given up his job as a Detective and has got a job as a gamekeeper. He comes across is old friend, Whistler, who the landlord has a grudge against, and so Fin finds himself in conflict with Whistler. Whistler leads Fin a merry dance over the hills and moors of UIg, in a storm, but ends…
Tolsta, Isle Of Lewis
Photograph © David Wilson
This is the location, in the book The Chessmen, of a scooter race between band members and teenage friends of Fin's; Strings and Roddy. The idea was to have a race along the track at the Bridge to Nowhere and whoever won, would be able to name their celtic rock band.
"It was one of those rare, delicious, early…
Eriskay, Isle Of South Uist
Photograph © David Wilson
In the book, The Lewis Man, two teenage brothers, Peter and Johnny and a young girl, Ceit are brought to South Uist. They were referred to as "homers" as they had been in an orphanage and the Catholic Church had shipped them to South Uist and boarded them out with a families in Eriskay. This house in Eriskay is where…
Ness, Isle Of Lewis
Overlooking the bay at Skigersta Harbour is Fin's Aunt's house.
Eriskay, Isle Of South Uist
Photograph © David Wilson
In the book, The Lewis Man, two teenage brothers, Johnny, Peter and a young girl, Ceit are brought to South Uist. They were referred to as "homers" as they had been in an orphanage and the Catholic Church had shipped them to South Uist and boarded them out with a families in Eriskay. This house in Eriskay is where…
Lochboisdale, Isle Of South Uist
Photograph © David Wilson
In the book, The Lewis Man, two teenage brothers, Johnny, Peter and a young girl, Ceit (Catherine) are brought to South Uist and boarded out with a families in Eriskay.
They were referred to as "homers" as they had been in an orphanage and the Catholic Church had shipped them to South Uist. It was in the days before…
Stornoway, Isle of Lewis
Stornoway features in all three books. In particular, there are scene's in MacNeils, the Police Station, the Lews Castle and the Iolaire Monument.
Uig, Isle Of Lewis
Photograph of Pabbay from Reef Beach © David Wilson
In The Chessmen, Uig Gala day is taking place at Ardroil beach in front of Uig Lodge. Fin and Gunn arrive looking for their suspect and end up in a boat chase which takes them past Gallan Head and into the caves at Pabbay. Fin and Detective Gunn arrive at the caves and despite their best…
Stonoway, Isle of Lewis
Photograph © David Wilson
The police station is off course 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 in Edinburgh. Here he teams up with Detective Sergeant George Gunn…
Ness, Isle Of Lewis
Photograph © David Wilson
The boathouse at the harbour in Port of Ness is the scene of the murder in The Blackhouse, that Detective Fin Macleod is sent from Edinburgh to investigate. Fin left "Crobost" as a teenager and returns as a detective to investigate the case. The victim is known to Fin. He is the brother of an old school friend.
"The…
Ness, Isle Of Lewis
Photograph © David Wilson
Skigersta harbour is where Peter May imagined to be "Crobost" harbour. In The Blackhouse having spent many years as a detective in Edinburgh, he returns to Lewis to investigate the murder of an old school friend's brother Angus "Angel" Macritchie. He revists his old haunts in Ness, where he was brought up - the…
Scarista, Isle Of Harris
Photograph © David Wilson
The book The Lewis Man starts with the body of a perfectly preserved body of a young man being recovered from a peatbog at Shader, near Ness. At first it is thought to be a "bog body" until the pathologist conducting the autopsy finds an Elvis Presley Tattoo on his forearm. What had appeared to be a historical find…
Sollas, Isle Of North Uist
Photograph © David Wilson
Sollas beach is featured in The Chessmen as the location of a drug smuggling tryst resulting in a murder. A light aircraft is found in among the hills in Uig at the start of the book. The story eventually leads to Sollas beach, which is known for its beach fly in, and was where the aircraft had come from on its final…
Ness, Isle Of Lewis
Photograph © David Wilson
The Free Church of Scotland building and manse were used as the models to base the church and manse in "Crobsot". There are no churches in Adabroc, the village "Crobost" is based on and so the church at Cross was "moved" to Crobost. Fin's old friend is Donald Murray, the minister's son. Donald rebels against his…
Uig, Isle Of Lewis
Photograph © David Wilson
The glorious bay at Uig, south west Lewis, has many of Fin’s locations around it. Whistler lives at Ardroil as does Minto and the ancient little graveyard at Baile na Cille must be one of the most scenic in Britain.
The Chessmen sees Fin in contact with his old friend Whistler. Whistler played in a band, whilst…
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