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Award in Strasbourg, France, in 2011"><img alt="May receiving the Prix Cezam Literature Award in Strasbourg, France, in 2011" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Peter_May_wins_French_Cezam_Prize.jpg/220px-Peter_May_wins_French_Cezam_Prize.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="331" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Peter_May_wins_French_Cezam_Prize.jpg/330px-Peter_May_wins_French_Cezam_Prize.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Peter_May_wins_French_Cezam_Prize.jpg/440px-Peter_May_wins_French_Cezam_Prize.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1065" data-file-height="1600" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:1.4em;">May receiving the Prix Cezam Literature Award in <a href="/wiki/Strasbourg" title="Strasbourg">Strasbourg</a>, France, in 2011</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1951-12-20</span>) </span>20 December 1951<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 72)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a>, Scotland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Crime_writer" class="mw-redirect" title="Crime writer">Crime writer</a>, screenwriter, novelist</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;">Scottish, French (April 2016)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Period</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">1971 – present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;">Television drama, <a href="/wiki/Thriller_(genre)" title="Thriller (genre)">Thriller</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mystery_fiction" title="Mystery fiction">Mystery</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crime_Fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Crime Fiction">Crime Fiction</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Subject</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Scotland, China, France</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">The Lewis Trilogy, The China Thrillers, The Enzo Files</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable awards</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Fraser Award <br /> 1973 <i>Scottish Young Journalist of the Year</i> <br /> <p>Prix Intramuros <br /> 2007 <i>Snakehead</i> <br /> </p> <a href="/wiki/Cezam_Prix_Litt%C3%A9raire_Inter_CE" title="Cezam Prix Littéraire Inter CE">Cezam Prix Littéraire Inter CE</a> <br /> 2011 <i>The Blackhouse</i> <br /></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Janice_Hally" title="Janice Hally">Janice Hally</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://petermay.co.uk">petermay<wbr />.co<wbr />.uk</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Peter May</b> (born 20 December 1951) is a Scottish television screenwriter, novelist, and <a href="/wiki/Crime_fiction" title="Crime fiction">crime writer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ScotlandArchive_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ScotlandArchive-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is the recipient of writing awards in Europe and America. <i>The Blackhouse</i> won the U.S. <a href="/wiki/Barry_Award_(for_crime_novels)" class="mw-redirect" title="Barry Award (for crime novels)">Barry Award</a> for Crime Novel of the Year and the national literature award in France, the <a href="/wiki/Cezam_Prix_Litt%C3%A9raire_Inter_CE" title="Cezam Prix Littéraire Inter CE">Cezam Prix Litteraire</a>. <i>The Lewis Man</i> won the French daily newspaper <i>Le Télégramme</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s 10,000-euro Grand Prix des Lecteurs.<sup id="cite_ref-Telegramme_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Telegramme-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2014, <i>Entry Island</i> won both the Deanston's Scottish Crime Novel of the Year<sup id="cite_ref-Bookseller_Magazine_Article_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bookseller_Magazine_Article-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the UK's ITV Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year Award.<sup id="cite_ref-ITV_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ITV-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> May's books have sold more than two million copies in the UK and several million internationally.<sup id="cite_ref-Scotsman_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scotsman-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_May_(writer)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Peter May was born in <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a>. From an early age he was intent on becoming a novelist, but took up a career as a journalist as a way to start earning a living by writing. He made his first serious attempt at writing a novel at the age of 19, which he sent to <a href="/wiki/William_Collins,_Sons" title="William Collins, Sons">Collins</a> where it was read by <a href="/wiki/Philip_Ziegler" title="Philip Ziegler">Philip Ziegler</a>, who wrote him a very encouraging rejection letter.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the age of 21, he won the <i>Fraser Award</i> and was named Scotland's Young Journalist of the Year. He went on to write for<i> <a href="/wiki/The_Scotsman" title="The Scotsman">The Scotsman</a> </i>and the<i> <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Evening_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="Glasgow Evening Times">Glasgow Evening Times</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-shotsmag_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shotsmag-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the age of 26, May's first novel, <i>The Reporter</i>, was published. May was asked to adapt the book as a television series for the British television network the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>, and left journalism in 1978 to begin to write full-time for television.<sup id="cite_ref-shotsmag_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shotsmag-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Television_career">Television career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_May_(writer)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Television career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>May's novel <i>The Reporter</i> became the prime-time 13-part television series entitled <i><a href="/wiki/The_Standard_(TV_series)" title="The Standard (TV series)">The Standard</a></i> in 1978. May went on to create another major TV series for the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Squadron_(TV_series)" title="Squadron (TV series)">Squadron</a></i>, a drama involving an <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">RAF</a> rapid deployment <a href="/wiki/Squadron_(aviation)" title="Squadron (aviation)">squadron</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-officialbio_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-officialbio-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the following fifteen years, May earned more than 1,000 TV credits. He created and wrote major drama serials for both BBC and the Independent Television Network in the UK<sup id="cite_ref-crimetime_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crimetime-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including <i><a href="/wiki/Machair_(TV_series)" title="Machair (TV series)">Machair</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-Gaelic_drama_serial_Machair_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gaelic_drama_serial_Machair-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which he co-created with <a href="/wiki/Janice_Hally" title="Janice Hally">Janice Hally</a> for <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Television" title="Scottish Television">Scottish Television</a>. The long-running serial was the first major television drama to be made in the Gaelic language and was shot entirely on the <a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Lewis" title="Isle of Lewis">Isle of Lewis</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Outer_Hebrides" title="Outer Hebrides">Outer Hebrides</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Gaelic_drama_serial_Machair_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gaelic_drama_serial_Machair-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The show, which May also produced, achieved a 33% audience share and regularly appeared in the top ten in the ratings in Scotland, in spite of the fact that it was broadcast with English subtitles because only 2% of the population of Scotland are Gaelic speakers.<sup id="cite_ref-crimetime_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crimetime-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his time working in television, May wrote the novels <i>Hidden Faces</i> (1981) and <i>The Noble Path</i> (1992),<sup id="cite_ref-officialbio_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-officialbio-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 1996 he quit television to write novels.<sup id="cite_ref-crimetime_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crimetime-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Novel_writing_career">Novel writing career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_May_(writer)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Novel writing career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="China">China</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_May_(writer)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: China"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After quitting television May wrote a series of six novels known as the <i>China Thrillers</i>. To research the series, May made annual trips to China and built up a network of contacts including forensic pathologists and homicide detectives. He gained access to the homicide and forensic science sections of Beijing and Shanghai police forces and has made a study of the methodology of Chinese police and forensic pathology systems.<sup id="cite_ref-crimetime_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crimetime-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a mark of their respect for his work, the Chinese Crime Writers' Association made him an honorary member of their Beijing Chapter. He is the only Westerner to receive this honour.<sup id="cite_ref-shotsmag_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shotsmag-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He has also contributed a monthly column to the Chinese Police Magazine <i>Contemporary World Police</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-shotsmag_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shotsmag-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The books were first published in the UK between 1999 and 2004 and subsequently published worldwide in translation. New editions were published for the United States and UK in 2016/17 with an introduction by May explaining the historical setting of the books.<sup id="cite_ref-Peter_May_Blog_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peter_May_Blog-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="France">France</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_May_(writer)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: France"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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.<sup id="cite_ref-intramuros_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intramuros-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-intramuros_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intramuros-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2007, May was the only non-French author in the shortlist. He received the prize at the annual Polar&Co literary festival in <a href="/wiki/Cognac,_France" title="Cognac, France">Cognac</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The Enzo Files</i> is set in France and is centred on the work of half-Italian, half-Scottish Enzo Macleod. This former forensic scientist, now working as a biology professor at a French university becomes involved in applying the latest scientific methods to solve cold cases.<sup id="cite_ref-sandiego1_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sandiego1-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>May tried to ensure authenticity in the details of his books by researching in France just as he did in China. When writing <i>The Critic</i> – which involves the wine industry and is set in Gaillac, France – May took a course in wine-tasting, picked grapes by hand, and was invited by the winemakers of the region to be inducted as a <i>Chevalier de la Dive Bouteille de Gaillac</i> in December 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-critic_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-critic-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2016, after 15 years of living full-time in France and a connection with the department of the Lot that goes back more than 40 years, May was welcomed as a French citizen at a ceremony of naturalisation by Catherine Ferrier, the Préfète of the Lot.<sup id="cite_ref-naturalisation_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-naturalisation-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Second_Life">Second Life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_May_(writer)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Second Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>While working on his standalone thriller <i>Virtually Dead</i>, May researched the book by creating an avatar in the online world of <a href="/wiki/Second_Life" title="Second Life">Second Life</a> and opening the Flick Faulds private detective agency.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He spent a year in Second Life, working as a private detective, and was hired by clients for cases ranging from protection from harassment by stalkers to surveillance and infidelity investigations.<sup id="cite_ref-internationthrillerwriters_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-internationthrillerwriters-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Lewis_Trilogy"><i>The Lewis Trilogy</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_May_(writer)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: The Lewis Trilogy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After being turned down by all the major British publishers, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Blackhouse_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Blackhouse (novel)">The Blackhouse</a></i>, the first book in 'The Lewis Trilogy', was published first in May's adopted home of France in French translation at the end of 2009. The book was hailed as "a masterpiece" by the French daily newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/L%27Humanit%C3%A9" title="L'Humanité">L'Humanité</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was immediately nominated for several literary awards in France. It won the Prix des Lecteurs at Le Havre's Ancres Noires Festival in 2010<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and won the French national literature award, the <a href="/wiki/Cezam_Prix_Litt%C3%A9raire_Inter_CE" title="Cezam Prix Littéraire Inter CE">Cezam Prix Littéraire Inter CE</a><sup id="cite_ref-CEZAM_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CEZAM-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at an award ceremony in <a href="/wiki/Strasbourg" title="Strasbourg">Strasbourg</a> in October 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-PressRelease_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PressRelease-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Blackhouse</i> went on to be published all over Europe and was bought by British publishers <a href="/wiki/Quercus_(publisher)" title="Quercus (publisher)">Quercus</a> who brought it out in February 2011. It is the first of three books to be set in the <a href="/wiki/Outer_Hebrides" title="Outer Hebrides">Outer Hebrides</a>, an archipelago off the North West coast of Scotland.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The Blackhouse</i> was chosen for the <a href="/wiki/Richard_%26_Judy#Richard_&_Judy_Book_Club" title="Richard & Judy">Richard & Judy Book Club</a> autumn 2011 list.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The second book in the trilogy, <i>The Lewis Man</i>, was published in January 2012, and spent 18 weeks in the UK hardbacks best sellers' list. It has won two French literature awards, the Prix des Lecteurs at Le Havre's Ancres Noires Festival, 2012 and the Prix des Lecteurs du Télégramme, readers prize of France's Le Télégramme newspaper; the 10,000 euro award was presented to May at a ceremony in Brest in May 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The Lewis Man</i> won the 2012 Prix International at the Cognac Festival.<sup id="cite_ref-Charente_Libre_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Charente_Libre-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The third book in the trilogy, <i>The Chessmen</i>, was published in January 2013. It was shortlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Book of the Year 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-Theakstons_Old_Peculiar_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Theakstons_Old_Peculiar-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Lewis Trilogy has sold more than a million copies in the UK alone.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Standalone_novels">Standalone novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_May_(writer)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Standalone novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Entry Island</i>, Peter May's first book after the Lewis Trilogy, won the Deanstons Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2014,<sup id="cite_ref-Bookseller_Magazine_article_about_Peter_May_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bookseller_Magazine_article_about_Peter_May-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the UK national prize, the Specsavers ITV Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year 2014<sup id="cite_ref-Specsavers_ITV_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Specsavers_ITV-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the French Trophée 813 for the Best Foreign Crime Novel of the year 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-Trophee_813_2015_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trophee_813_2015-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The book is partly set on a remote island in modern-day Canada and partly set on the Isle of Lewis 150 years earlier during the Highland Clearances. </p><p><i>Runaway</i> is a crime novel based on Peter May's real experiences of running away from home in Glasgow seeking fame and fortune in London with members of a musical group that he was part of in the 1960s. The story is told through two storylines, one in 1965 in which five teenagers embark on a trip that ends with tragic consequences, and the other in 2015, where three of the men retrace their steps from Scotland to London fifty years later in order to solve a murder.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_Newspaper_interview_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian_Newspaper_interview-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Published in the UK in 2016, <i>Coffin Road</i> is a standalone thriller set on the <a href="/wiki/Harris,_Outer_Hebrides" title="Harris, Outer Hebrides">Isle of Harris</a>. The story has an ecological theme involving links between big pharmaceutical companies and <a href="/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder" title="Colony collapse disorder">colony collapse disorder</a> in bees. Although it is not a follow-up to May's Lewis Trilogy, the character of George Gunn, a policeman in the Lewis Trilogy features as a policeman in <i>Coffin Road</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Coffin_Road_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Coffin_Road-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>I'll Keep You Safe</i> (published in the UK in 2018) opens in Paris, France, but the action quickly transfers to the Western Isles of Scotland. A thriller tangentially related to the world of high fashion, it features characters engaged in the rural production of hand-woven fabric similar to <a href="/wiki/Harris_tweed" title="Harris tweed">Harris tweed</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>A Silent Death,</i> published in the UK in 2020, is a police thriller set in <a href="/wiki/Andalusia" title="Andalusia">Andalucia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Gibraltar" title="Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a>. Its action involves the criminal background to the <a href="/wiki/Costa_del_Sol" title="Costa del Sol">Costa del Sol</a> and features a Scottish policeman on the trail of a Scottish drug lord.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Lockdown_(novel)" title="Lockdown (novel)">Lockdown</a></i> was also published worldwide in 2020 although it was written 15 years earlier. The story takes place in the city of London during a lockdown resulting from a global pandemic. May stated that the book was not published at the time because British editors thought the idea of London under siege from a virus "was unrealistic and could never happen”.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Books,_television_and_film_writing_credits"><span id="Books.2C_television_and_film_writing_credits"></span>Books, television and film writing credits</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_May_(writer)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Books, television and film writing credits"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Lewis_Trilogy_2"><i>The Lewis Trilogy</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_May_(writer)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: The Lewis Trilogy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Blackhouse_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Blackhouse (novel)">The Blackhouse</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Quercus_(publisher)" title="Quercus (publisher)">Quercus</a> 2011)</li> <li><i>The Lewis Man</i> (Quercus, 2012)</li> <li><i>The Chessmen</i> (Quercus, 2013)</li></ul> <p>Follow-up to the Lewis Trilogy </p> <ul><li><i>The Black Loch</i> (Riverrun 2024)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Enzo_Files"><i>The Enzo Files</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_May_(writer)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: The Enzo Files"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Extraordinary People</i> (published in United States as <i>Dry Bones</i> by <a href="/wiki/Poisoned_Pen_Press" title="Poisoned Pen Press">Poisoned Pen Press</a> 2006), (Quercus, 2013)</li> <li><i>The Critic</i> (published in United States as <i>A Vintage Corpse</i> by Poisoned Pen Press, 2007), (Quercus, 2013)</li> <li><i>Blacklight Blue</i> (Poisoned Pen Press, 2008, Quercus 2013)</li> <li><i>Freeze Frame</i> (Poisoned Pen Press, 2010, Quercus, 2013)</li> <li><i>Blowback</i> (Poisoned Pen Press, 2011, Quercus, 2013)</li> <li><i>Cast Iron</i> (Riverrun, 2017)</li> <li><i>The Night Gate</i> (Riverrun, 2021)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_China_Thrillers"><i>The China Thrillers</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_May_(writer)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: The China Thrillers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Firemaker</i> (<a href="/wiki/Hodder_%26_Stoughton" title="Hodder & Stoughton">Hodder & Stoughton</a> 1999), (<a href="/wiki/St._Martin%27s_Press" title="St. Martin's Press">St. Martin's Press</a> 2005), (Poisoned Pen Press 2008), (Quercus E-books 2012), (Riverrun 2016)</li> <li><i>The Fourth Sacrifice</i> (Hodder & Stoughton 2000), (St Martin's Press 2007) (Poisoned Pen Press 2008), (Quercus E-books 2012), (Riverrun 2016)</li> <li><i>The Killing Room</i> (Hodder & Stoughton 2001), (St Martin's Press 2008) (Poisoned Pen Press 2009), (Quercus E-books 2012), (Riverrun 2016)</li> <li><i>Snakehead</i> (Hodder & Stoughton 2002), (Poisoned Pen Press 2009), (Quercus E-books 2012), (Riverrun 2017)</li> <li><i>The Runner</i> (Hodder & Stoughton 2003), (Poisoned Pen Press 2010), (Quercus E-books 2012), (Riverrun 2017)</li> <li><i>Chinese Whispers</i> (Hodder & Stoughton 2004), (Poisoned Pen Press 2009), (Quercus Quercus E-books 2012), (Riverrun 2017)</li> <li><i>The Ghost Marriage</i> (Éditions Didier 2010), (Quercus 2017)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Standalone_novels_2">Standalone novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_May_(writer)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Standalone novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Reporter</i> (<a href="/wiki/Transworld_(Company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Transworld (Company)">Corgi</a>, 1978)</li> <li><i>Fallen Hero</i> (<a href="/wiki/New_English_Library" title="New English Library">NEL</a>, 1979)</li> <li><i>Hidden Faces</i> (Piatkus 1981), published as <i>The Man With No Face</i> (St Martin's Press 1982), (Riverrun 2019)</li> <li><i>The Noble Path</i> (Piatkus 1992), (St Martin's Press 1993), (Riverrun 2019)</li> <li><i>Virtually Dead</i> (Poisoned Pen Press 2010)</li> <li><i>Entry Island</i> (Quercus 2014)</li> <li><i>Runaway</i> (Quercus 2015)</li> <li><i>Coffin Road</i> (Quercus 2016)</li> <li><i>I'll Keep You Safe</i> (Riverrun 2018)</li> <li><i>A Silent Death</i> (Riverrun 2020)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lockdown_(novel)" title="Lockdown (novel)">Lockdown</a></i> (Riverrun 2020)</li> <li><i>A Winter Grave</i> (Riverrun 2023)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Photo_books">Photo books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_May_(writer)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Photo books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Hebrides</i> (Quercus 2013) Photo companion to The Lewis Trilogy, with photographs by David Wilson.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television_drama">Television drama</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_May_(writer)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Television drama"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Standard_(TV_series)" title="The Standard (TV series)">The Standard</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> 1978) (13 episodes) creator, writer</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Squadron_(TV_series)" title="Squadron (TV series)">Squadron</a></i> (BBC 1982) (10 episodes) co-creator, writer</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Take_the_High_Road" title="Take the High Road">Take the High Road</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Scottish_Television" title="Scottish Television">Scottish Television</a> 1980 – 1992) writer (200+ episodes), story & script editor (700+ episodes).</li> <li><i>The Ardlamont Mystery</i> (BBC 1985) (Single drama) writer.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Machair_(TV_series)" title="Machair (TV series)">Machair</a></i> (Scottish Television 1992–96) (99 episodes) co-creator and producer.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film">Film</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_May_(writer)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Film"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Killing Room (Les Disparues de Shanghai)</i> movie to be produced by French production company, French Connection in partnership with Korean Dream Capture Studios<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Action to be transferred from Shanghai, China to Seoul, South Korea. Was released as a movie entitled Vanishing, starring Olga Kurylenko in 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honours">Awards and honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_May_(writer)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Awards and honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Peter_May_with_2013_Barry_Award.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Peter_May_with_2013_Barry_Award.JPG/220px-Peter_May_with_2013_Barry_Award.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Peter_May_with_2013_Barry_Award.JPG/330px-Peter_May_with_2013_Barry_Award.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Peter_May_with_2013_Barry_Award.JPG/440px-Peter_May_with_2013_Barry_Award.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1936" /></a><figcaption>Author Peter May with the 2013 Barry Award for Best Novel, for <i>The Blackhouse</i>.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Fraser Award (1973) winner of <i>Scottish Young Journalist of the Year Award</i><sup id="cite_ref-officialbio_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-officialbio-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>17th International Celtic Film and Television Festival (1996) <i>Machair</i> nominated for <i>Best Drama Serial Award</i><sup id="cite_ref-officialbio_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-officialbio-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Elle Magazine, Grand Prix de Littérature (2006) <i>The Firemaker</i> runner up in category <i>Best Crime Novel</i><sup id="cite_ref-officialbio_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-officialbio-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2007 Prix Intramuros (France)<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Snakehead</i> winner at the <i>Salon Polar & Co, Cognac</i><sup id="cite_ref-intramuros_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-intramuros-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2007 Prix International (France) <i>Snakehead</i> shortlisted at the <i>Salon Polar & Co, Cognac</i><sup id="cite_ref-officialbio_8-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-officialbio-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2008 Prix International (France) <i>Chinese Whispers</i> shortlisted at the <i>Salon Polar & Co, Cognac</i><sup id="cite_ref-officialbio_8-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-officialbio-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2010 Prix Ancres Noires<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>L'Île des chasseurs d'oiseaux</i> (The Blackhouse) winner of the Prix des Lecteurs at the <i>Les Ancres Noires book festival, Le Havre</i></li> <li>2011 <a href="/wiki/Cezam_Prix_Litt%C3%A9raire_Inter_CE" title="Cezam Prix Littéraire Inter CE">Cezam Prix Littéraire Inter CE</a><sup id="cite_ref-CEZAM_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CEZAM-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>L'Île des chasseurs d'oiseaux</i> (The Blackhouse) winner of the CEZAM Prix Litteraire Inter CE national French Literature Prize.<sup id="cite_ref-PressRelease_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PressRelease-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2012 Prix Ancres Noires<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (2012) <i>L'Homme de Lewis</i> (The Lewis Man) winner of the Prix des Lecteurs at the <i>Les Ancres Noires book festival, Le Havre</i></li> <li>2012 Grand Prix des Lecteurs du Télégramme<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (2012) <i>L'Homme de Lewis</i> (The Lewis Man) winner of the Prix des Lecteurs du Télégramme, 10,000 Euro Readers' Prize of French daily newspaper.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2012 Prix International, Cognac Festival<sup id="cite_ref-Charente_Libre_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Charente_Libre-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><i>L'Homme de Lewis</i> won the 2012 Prix International at the Cognac Festival.</li> <li>2013 <a href="/wiki/Macavity_Awards" title="Macavity Awards">Macavity Award</a> for Best Mystery Novel (USA)<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Blackhouse</i> shortlisted</li> <li>2013 <a href="/wiki/Theakston%27s_Old_Peculier_Crime_Novel_of_the_Year_Award" title="Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award">Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award</a> (UK)<sup id="cite_ref-Theakstons_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Theakstons-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Lewis Man</i> shortlisted</li> <li>2013 <a href="/wiki/Barry_Award_(for_crime_novels)" class="mw-redirect" title="Barry Award (for crime novels)">Barry Award</a> for Best Crime Novel (USA)<sup id="cite_ref-Barry_Awards_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barry_Awards-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Blackhouse</i> won the Barry Award for Best Novel of the Year at a ceremony at Bouchercon, Albany NY.<sup id="cite_ref-Crimespree_Report_on_Barry_Awards_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crimespree_Report_on_Barry_Awards-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>'2014 <a href="/wiki/Theakston%27s_Old_Peculier_Crime_Novel_of_the_Year_Award" title="Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award">Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award</a> (UK)<sup id="cite_ref-Theakstons_Old_Peculiar_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Theakstons_Old_Peculiar-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Chessmen</i> shortlisted</li> <li>2014 Deanstons Scottish Crime Book of the Year<sup id="cite_ref-Bookseller_Magazine_article_about_Peter_May_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bookseller_Magazine_article_about_Peter_May-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Entry Island</i> won the Deanstons Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award at the Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival in Stirling September 2014.</li> <li>2014 Specsavers ITV Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year<sup id="cite_ref-Specsavers_ITV_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Specsavers_ITV-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Entry Island</i> won the Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year Award at the <a href="/wiki/Crime_Thriller_Awards" title="Crime Thriller Awards">Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards</a> ceremony in London, October 2014.</li> <li>2015 <a href="/wiki/Dagger_in_the_Library" title="Dagger in the Library">Dagger in the Library</a> UK Crime Writers' Association award for an author's body of work in British libraries (UK)<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> shortlisted</li> <li>2015 <a href="/wiki/Theakston%27s_Old_Peculier_Crime_Novel_of_the_Year_Award" title="Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award">Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award</a> (UK)<sup id="cite_ref-Theakstons_2015_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Theakstons_2015-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Entry Island</i> shortlisted</li> <li>2015 Trophée 813 (France)<sup id="cite_ref-Trophee_813_2015_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trophee_813_2015-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Entry Island</i> (L'Île du Serment) won the Trophée 813 for "Best Foreign Crime Novel" awarded by the French magazine Review 813.</li> <li>2021 CWA <a href="/wiki/Dagger_in_the_Library" title="Dagger in the Library">Dagger in the Library</a> winner of this award which recognises the popularity of an author's body of work with readers and users of libraries.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2024 The Palle Rosenkrantz Prize (best crime book of the year in Denmark)<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 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.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080606192353/http://www.friendsofscotland.gov.uk/scotlandnow/issue-07/history/crime.html">"Scotland Now feature on Scottish Crime Writers"</a>. 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