Peter May

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1981
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Enzo Files

1 - Extraordinary People // Dry Bones (Dec-2006)
2 - A Vintage Corpse // The Critic (Jan-2007)
3 - Blacklight Blue (May-2009)
4 - Freeze Frame (Mar-2010)
5 - Blowback (Mar-2011)
6 - Cast Iron (Oct-2017)

The Lewis Trilogy

1 - The Blackhouse (Mar-2011)
2 - The Lewis Man (Sep-2014)
3 - The Chessmen (Feb-2015)

Margaret Campbell and Li Yan

1 - The Firemaker (Sep-2005)
2 - The Fourth Sacrifice (Feb-2007)
3 - The Killing Room (Mar-2008)
4 - Snakehead (Feb-2009)
5 - The Runner (Feb-2010)
6 - Chinese Whispers (Oct-2009)

Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • The Man With No Face

    There are two men on their way to Brussels from the UK: Neil Bannerman, an iconoclastic journalist on Scotland's Daily Standard whose irate editor wants him out of the way, and Kale -- a professional assassin. Expecting to find only a difficult, d...

  • The Noble Path

    THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY, THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.' Undiscovered Scotland'No...

  • The Firemaker

    Margaret Campbell and Li Yan - 1

    Margaret Campbell, a Chicago forensic pathologist, has been invited by the Chinese government to teach at the Beijing police university. She has accepted the six-week assignment with misgivings but is desperate to escape a troubled life in America. A...

  • Extraordinary People // Dry Bones

    The Enzo Files - 1

    In the first book of the Enzo Files, ex forensic scientist Enzo Macleod makes a daring wager and attempts to solve the ten-year-old case of a vanished man.An old mystery.As midnight strikes, a man desperately seeking sanctuary flees into a church. Th...

  • A Vintage Corpse // The Critic

    The Enzo Files - 2

    Gil Petty, the world's number one wine critic, went missing during a tasting tour of the little-known wine region of Gaillac. Four years ago, his body was discovered strung up on a cross in the vineyards of southwest France....

  • The Fourth Sacrifice

    Margaret Campbell and Li Yan - 2

    Margaret Campbell had finally decided to leave Beijing---and the man she loved---and return home to the States. She had first come to Beijing to conduct a seminar on her specialty, forensic pathology, for the city's police. The invitation turned out ...

  • The Killing Room

    Margaret Campbell and Li Yan - 3

    Peter May's thrilling new China novel brings together Beijing detective Li Yan and American pathologist Margaret Campbell for the third time. When the mutilated and dismembered bodies of eighteen women are discovered in a mass grave in Shanghai, L...

  • Snakehead

    Margaret Campbell and Li Yan - 4

    THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE ENZO FILESAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.' Undiscovered Scotland'No one can create a mor...

  • Blacklight Blue

    The Enzo Files - 3

    THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Enzo MacLeod is one of the most unusual crime solvers I have ever met.' BookBrowse'No one can create a more ...



  • Chinese Whispers

    Margaret Campbell and Li Yan - 6

    THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE ENZO FILESAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.' Undiscovered Scotland'No one can create a mor...

  • Virtually Dead

    Crime-scene photographer Michael Kapinsky is a man whose first life is in a mess. But his second life is about to get a whole lot messier. Staggering under the financial burden left by his recently deceased wife, Michael struggles to come to terms wi...

  • The Runner

    Margaret Campbell and Li Yan - 5

    A top Chinese swimmer kills himself of the eve of an international event - shattering his country's hopes of victory against the Americans. An Olympic weightlifter dies in the arms of his Beijing mistress - a scandal to be hushed up at the highest le...

  • Freeze Frame

    The Enzo Files - 4

    A promise made to a dying man leads forensics ace Enzo Macleod, a Scot who's been teaching in France for many years, to the study which the man's heir has preserved for nearly twenty years. The dead man left several clues there designed to reveal the...

  • The Blackhouse

    The Lewis Trilogy - 1

    THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'One of the best regarded crime series of recent years.' Independent'No one can create a more eloquently written...

  • Blowback

    The Enzo Files - 5

    When France's top chef, Marc Fraysse, summoned the world's press to make a shattering announcement, rumors abounded that he was about to lose one of his three coveted Michelin stars. Instead, on arrival at his remote restaurant on a volcanic plateau...

  • The Lewis Man

    The Lewis Trilogy - 2

    A mummified body is discovered in a peat bog on the Isle of Lewis. Perforated by several stab wounds. the male corpse is initially believed to be more than two thousand years old -- until the police spot the Elvis tattoo on the right arm. Clearly, th...

  • The Chessmen

    The Lewis Trilogy - 3

    THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'One of the best regarded crime series of recent years.' Independent'No one can create a more eloquently written...

  • Entry Island

    THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today' Undiscovered Scotland'No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel than Peter May' New York Journal of BooksA...

  • Runaway

    THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY, THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERS'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today' Undiscovered Scotland'No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel th...



  • Coffin Road

    THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY, THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today' Undiscovered Scotland'No ...

  • Cast Iron

    The Enzo Files - 6

    THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Enzo MacLeod is one of the most unusual crime solvers I have ever met.' BookBrowse'No one can create a more ...

  • I'll Keep You Safe

    THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY, THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021A stunning standalone thriller from Peter May, alternating between the glamorous fashion worl...

  • Tweed

    "RICHLY WRITTEN." --KIRKUS REVIEWS
    "VIBRANT DETAILS." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
    "NO ONE CAN CREATE A MORE ELOQUENTLY WRITTEN SUSPENSE NOVEL THAN PETER MAY." --NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS

    A stunning standalone thriller from Peter May that alterna...

  • Ghost Marriage

  • A Silent Death

    THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY, THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.' Undiscovered Scotland'No...

  • Lockdown

    THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY, THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.' Undiscovered Scotland'No...

  • The Day I'll Never Forget

  • The Night Gate

    THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Enzo MacLeod is one of the most unusual crime solvers I have ever met.' BookBrowse'No one can create a more ...

  • A Winter Grave

    A #4 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From the twelve-million copy bestselling author of the Lewis trilogy comes a chilling new mystery set in the isolated Scottish Highlands.A TOMB OF ICEA young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in Kinloc...



  • The Black Loch

    THE RETURN OF FIN MACLEOD, PETER MAY'S MUCH-LOVED HERO OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING LEWIS TRILOGY.A MURDERThe body of eighteen-year-old TV personality Caitlin is found abandoned on a remote beach at the head of An Loch Dubh - the Black Loch - on ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Peter May has published 30 books.

The next book by Peter May, The Black Loch, will be published in September 2024.

The first book by Peter May, The Man With No Face, was published in July 1981.

Yes. Peter May has 3 series.
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