This is the second mystery in the Lewis trilogy by author Peter May. Fin Macleod has divorced his wife, left the police in Edinburgh, and moved back to Lewis to rebuild his parents croft. He's living in a tent on the property and trying to re-build a relationship with his childhood sweetheart, Marsaili, and their son, Fionnlach. He gets drawn into a murder investigation when a body is found buried in the peat. It's determined to be a murder from the 1950s when a tattoo is found on the young man's arm, and the investigation gets personal for Fin when DNA shows that the dead man is related to Marsaili's father Tormod, who is suffering from dementia. The narrative goes back and forth between Tormod's recollections of his childhood and Fin's attempts to follow the evidence to identify the murdered man and exonerate Tormod. Again, like the first in the trilogy, this is a very well-written book with engaging characters and an interesting plot.
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