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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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