The Firemaker
The explosive crime thriller from the author of The Enzo Files (The China Thrillers Book 1)
$25.54
- Paperback
560 pages
- Release Date
18 August 2026
Summary
THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE ENZO FILES AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021
‘Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.’ Undiscovered Scotland ‘No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel than Peter May.’ New York Journal of Books
Beijing, the summer of 1999. A grotesquely burned corpse is found in a city park. Detective Li Yan…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529449259 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529449251 |
| Author: | Peter May |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 560 |
| Release Date: | 18 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 38mm |
| Series: | China Thrillers |
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Critics Review
Praise for Peter May:He is a terrific writer doing something different.
From the first page I knew I was in safe hands. I knew I could trust this writer.Wonderfully compelling.A true pleasure to read. * Guardian *Peter May is a writer I’d follow to the ends of the earth. * New York Times *One of the best regarded crime series of recent years. * Independent, on the Lewis trilogy *Lyrical, empathetic and moving.A wonderfully complex book.May’s novels are strong on place and the wounds left by old relationships. * Sunday Times *Will have the reader relishing every tendency of description and characterization. * Independent *Dark, exciting and atmospheric. * Scotland on Sunday *Powerful and authentic. * Glasgow Sunday Herald *About The Author
Peter May
Peter May was born and raised in Scotland. He was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BBC, he quit journalism and during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland’s most successful television dramatists. He created three prime-time drama series, presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland as script editor and producer, and worked on more than 1,000 episodes of ratings-topping drama before deciding to leave television to return to his first love, writing novels.
In 2021, he was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library Award. He has also won several literature awards in France, received the USA’s Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 was awarded the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year award for Entry Island. Peter now lives in South-West France with his wife, writer Janice Hally.
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