![]() ![]() Fin returns to his boyhood home of the Isle of Lewis, which just happens to be where the bog body was discovered. Now his marriage is breaking up after 16 years, largely because of tensions arising from the hit and run death of his son Robbie. He grew up on Lewis but left it 18 years before. ![]() The omniscient narrator returns and we are introduced (reintroduced if you read The Blackhouse, the first book of the trilogy), to Detective Sergeant Finlay (Fin) Macleod of the Edinburgh police force. The narration of the book switches abruptly from omniscience to the first person ramblings of a man named Tormod with Alzheimer’s disease. ![]() But in this case, an autopsy on the body revealed a tattoo of Elvis Presley, indicating that the murder was relatively recent, and the culprit, or culprits, may still be alive. At least one other peat body nearby had shown signs of murder, but since carbon dating ascertained it was several hundred years old, the police had no interest in it. One of the characters looking at the dead body asks, “What shall we call him?” Having been discovered on the Isle of Lewis, he becomes “the Lewis Man.” A preliminary examination indicates that he was probably murdered by several stab wounds to the chest and by a vicious slitting of the throat. The Tollund Man was discovered in a Denmark bog in 1950 with skin so well-preserved, the wrinkles on his face are still clearly visible. ![]()
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