Extraordinary People, by Peter May
Published by Quercus
Paperback £7.99, also available as an eBook
Having penned the internationally best-selling Lewis Trilogy, set in the Outer Hebrides, and the China Thrillers, featuring Beijing detective Li Yan and US forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell, multi-award-winning author May has turned his attention to France.
In Extraordinary People, due to be published on May 8, the author, who is also the creator of three major TV drama series, introduces Enzo Macleod, who is half Scottish and half Italian.
Ten years before, Jacques Gaillard disappeared from Paris. No investigation has yet produced any clue as to whether he is missing – or murdered.
Challenged to decipher the mystery once and for all, Macleod must use new science to crack a cold case.
Formerly a forensics expert in Scotland but now living in France and working as a university professor in Toulouse, Macleod has taken on a bet to solve seven murders listed in a cult book by an embittered Parisian journalist.
Deep in the catacombs below Paris, a skull is discovered that could be Gaillard’s.
But it is the peculiar items embedded within the bone that give Macleod his most intriguing clues.
They send him on a mission to find the rest of the missing man – unaware that he is also following in the footsteps of the murderer . . .