Beijing / China Thriller

The “Beijing series” also known as the “China Thrillers” are a series of novels by Peter May the award-winning Scottish author known for his detective thrillers. The lead protagonists of the novels are a down on her luck American pathologist Margaret Campbell, who pairs up with Li Yan a Chinese detective. The series debuted with “The Firemaker”, a critically acclaimed novel that introduced the lead characters and spawned six more titles culminating in the “Ghost Marriage” that was published in 2010. In addition to the “Beijing Serie”s he is also the author of the “Lewis Trilogy” set in the Scottish Outer Hebrides, the “Enzo Files” about Enzo Macleod a Scottish forensic scientist, and several freestanding novels. May was born in Scotland and published her first novel “The Blackhouse” of the Lewis Trilogy in 2009, after years being turned away by almost all the big publishers of the UK. The novel that “L’Humanite” hailed as a masterpiece won several awards and became one of the most popular novels in France winning the “Prix Cezam”. The novel was published in English by Quercus and became an award-winning international bestseller making the shortlist for the Macavity and Barry Awards. Before he became an award-winning author, Peter May was a very successful producer, creator, and television script writer in Britain and Scotland. As a script writer, he made his name writing three of the biggest and highest rated TV dramas in the UK before she quit to pursue her first love, writing fiction.