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Peter May
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Peter May's website
Enzo Files website
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Peter May is the award-winning author of several standalone novels and two series: The China Thrillers, featuring Beijing detective Li Yan and American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell; and The Enzo Files, featuring Scottish forensic scientist Enzo MacLeod, which is set in France.
He is the creator and scriptwriter of three major television drama series, and wrote and produced than 500 broadcast hours of
prime-time British television drama in fifteen years before quitting television to
concentrate on his first love, writing novels.
Born and raised in Scotland he now lives in France.
May's writing career began when he won the Scottish Young Journalist of the Year Award at the age of
21, and had his first novel published at 26. He left journalism
and became one of Scotland's most successful and prolific television
dramatists. By the age of 30 he had created two major TV series, The
Standard and Squadron, for the British television network, the BBC. He
went on to garner more than 1000 TV credits in fifteen years, creating
and writing major drama serials for both BBC and ITV in the UK:
including the ground-breaking Gaelic serial Machair, which he also
produced.
Returning now to novels, his outstanding China Thrillers series of
books are winning critical acclaim. To research the series, Peter May
made annual trips to China. With an extraordinary network of contacts,
he has gained unprecedented access to the homicide and forensic science
sections of Beijing and Shanghai police forces and has made a
painstaking study of the methodology of Chinese detectives and
pathologists.
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 such an honour.
He won the French Literary Award, the PRIX INTRAMUROS for the French
edition of his China Thriller Snakehead, at the 2007 Cognac Literary
Festival.
His lates series of books, The Enzo Files,
is set in France. The second in the series, The Critic tells a story
set in the world of French wine production. May took his research
for this so seriously, that he was inducted as a Chevalier de l'Ordre de la Dive Bouteille de
Gaillac in December 2007 in recognition of his knowledge and support of
the wines of Gaillac.
In search of a new setting for his latest thriller, Virtually Dead,
he entered the virtual world of Second Life in 2007, creating his own
avatar, Flick Faulds, to explore the metaverse. Faulds set up a
detective agency to help May in his research, since when he has handled
dozens of Second Life investigations ranging from stalking and
“griefing”, to fraud and infidelity, gathering invaluable background
for the book in the process.
Peter May is married to writer Janice Hally.
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CHINESE WHISPERS
978-1-59058-608-2
 In
the sixth of Peter May’s acclaimed China Thrillers, a serial killer modelling himself on London's famous Jack the Ripper is performing copycat murders in Beijing.
The media and terror-sticken public are demanding the arrest of the
Beijing "Ripper" and Li Yan, the head of Beijing's serious crime squad,
has been put in the spotlight.
His partner, American pathologist Margaret Campbell is invited to
perform an autopsy on one of the victims and her results send
shockwaves through the investigation. Then Li begins receiving personal
letters from the killer, and his life and career start falling apart.
The need to uncover the Ripper's identity becomes paramount if he is to
save himself and his family.
Peter May's terrifying new China thriller pits Li Yan and Margaret
Campbell against an unscrupulous foe who could prove to be their
deadliest enemy yet.
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CHINESE WHISPERS
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BLACKLIGHT BLUE
 Enzo
MacLeod, a Scot teaching on a faculty at Cahors in southwest France,
confidently bet that he could use his expertise to crack seven
notorious murders described in a book on cold cases by Parisian
journalist Roger Raffin. Enzo has in fact solved the first two crimes.
But the third is far from his mind right now: he’s just been diagnosed
with a terminal illness, and he’s become the victim of someone who
seems intent on destroying his credit and his relationships—and getting
him arrested for murder. This is one instance where his Scottish
stubbornness might pay off.
Having established a safe house to protect his loved ones, besieged now
as it were, he sets to work. Are his personal woes somehow connected to
the digging he’s done into the brutal murder of a rent boy in a Paris
apartment sixteen years ago, as Raffin has described? What further
remnants of evidence can he review—and can he stay alive long enough to
catch the long-hidden killer? This is the third installment in the Enzo
MacLeod series.
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BLACKLIGHT BLUE
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THE CRITIC
 Some
people would have killed to be as influential as world-renowned wine
critic Gil Petty. The problem is, somebody did. Now forensic expert
Enzo MacLeod is back to crack this well-chilled case.
Four years ago, Petty’s body was found strung up like a scarecrow in a
French vineyard. Before his death, Petty wielded a great power over the
vintners’ world: a good review spelled success, a bad one spelled ruin.
Now Enzo must face a greedy, envious, and desperate society of
winemakers who will do anything to protect their secrets...even if it
means killing again. The Critic is the second in the Enzo files.
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THE CRITIC
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LINKS
60 minute video interview with Barbara Peters
view Peter's Trailer for his brand new standalone "Virtually Dead"
author events or presentations on PP Webcon
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