May's novel The Reporter became the prime-time 13-part television series entitled The Standard in 1978. May was asked to adapt the book as a television series for the British television network the BBC, and left journalism in 1978 to begin to write full-time for television. At the age of 26, May's first novel, The Reporter, was published. He went on to write for The Scotsmanand the Glasgow Evening Times. At the age of 21, he won the Fraser Award and was named Scotland's Young Journalist of the Year. He made his first serious attempt at writing a novel at the age of 19, which he sent to Collins where it was read by Philip Ziegler, who wrote him a very encouraging rejection letter. 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. May's books have sold more than two million copies in the UK and several million internationally. In 2014, Entry Island won both the Deanston's Scottish Crime Novel of the Year and the UK's ITV Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year Award. The Lewis Man won the French daily newspaper Le Télégramme 's 10,000-euro Grand Prix des Lecteurs. Barry Award for Crime Novel of the Year and the national literature award in France, the CEZAM Prix Litteraire. He is the recipient of writing awards in Europe and America.

Peter May (born 20 December 1951) is a Scottish television screenwriter, novelist, and crime writer. The Lewis Trilogy, The China Thrillers, The Enzo Filesġ973 Scottish Young Journalist of the Year Television drama, Thriller, Mystery, Crime Fiction

In 2011, The Blackhouse won the 2011 Cezam Prix Littéraire Inter CE, a readers' prize for best novel by a European author, published in France.May receiving the Prix Cezam Literature Award in Strasbourg, France, in 2011 As the narrative progresses, it emerges that Fin and his childhood story are intimately linked with the murder. The story unfolds as the chapters alternate between present-day events, written in the third person, and Fin's childhood, written in the first person. The modus operandi of the crime resembles a murder that Fin recently investigated in Edinburgh, so there is the possibility of a common perpetrator. The protagonist, Detective Inspector Finlay Macleod (known as Fin), a native of the island, is sent from his Edinburgh police station to investigate the murder of a man who, it transpires, was the bully at Fin's school. The action takes place mostly on the remote and weather-beaten Isle of Lewis off the coast of northern Scotland. The Blackhouse is a suspense thriller, the first novel of The Lewis Trilogy, written by the Scottish writer Peter May.

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