Get our Best Book Club Books of 2025 eBook!

What readers think of Coffin Road, plus links to write your own review.

Summary |  Excerpt |  Reviews |  Beyond the book |  Read-Alikes |  Genres & Themes |  Author Bio

Coffin Road by Peter May

Coffin Road

by Peter May
  • BookBrowse Review:
  • Critics' Consensus (8):
  • Readers' Rating (3):
  • First Published:
  • Oct 4, 2016, 400 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Nov 2017, 400 pages
  • Rate this book

About This Book

Reviews

Page 1 of 1
There are currently 3 reader reviews for Coffin Road
Order Reviews by:

Write your own review!

Heather M

Great plot but a few details were odd
I loved the descriptive writing style of Peter May and the plot was very intriguing. It did keep me up until the wee hours of the night to see what happened next. However, a couple of details were a bit odd - when the guy goes to Edinburgh to see the home at the address he found, he confronts his daughter, Karen, and his former wife and neither recognizes him. Then, after a few chapters, his daughter sees him and says"Daddy"! Doesn't anyone think that this is odd?
gillian

save the bees
This is my first Peter May book and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I have to wonder if people would really go to these lengths to save bees in the real world. I enjoyed the characters and the descriptions of the Hebrides Islands. I will definitely read more in the series.
Michael Haughton

Coffin Road by Peter May
The writer started off pretty good with what appeared to be a female laying unconscious on a sea bed or shore. the began to describe her breathing and the way she felt. She was not in a bad shape it appears.

My first displeasure was this big word trepidation. some words are OK to be used to bring light and phrases to story lines or plot but this word is definitely out! The writer could have used a more easy phrase like despair or fearful feeling.

" I have no sense of 4 Peter May " I had no idea what this line phrase really mean. I wonder if the writer had any clue to know if all his readers had knowledge of this phrase. I certainly didn't and I presumed others too. The writer could simply use this: no sense of time or day.

Meanwhile, homicide detective George Gunn makes the rough ocean crossing to a remote, sea-battered lighthouse on a rock in the northern Atlantic, twenty miles west of the Outer Hebrides, to investigate a brutal murder. Despite its isolation, the tiny island has seen its share of tragedy: more than a century earlier, three lighthouse keepers disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again

When one is distorted or not fully aware of there surroundings. How in God's earth one can tell of these simple things around one's self:" several inches of gold trapping light from the window to give it an inner glow" that's the line of a distorted individual. I think the writer is so wrong on this and needs to backtrack. Especially with pain in one's head.
my ratings is at least 3 out of 5
  • Page
  • 1

BookBrowse Book Club

  • Book Jacket
    The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
    by Evie Woods
    From the million-copy bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop.
  • Book Jacket
    Real Americans
    by Rachel Khong
    From the author of Goodbye, Vitamin, a novel exploring family, identity, and the shaping of destiny.

Members Recommend

  • Book Jacket

    One Death at a Time
    by Abbi Waxman

    A cranky ex-actress and her Gen Z sobriety sponsor team up to solve a murder that could send her back to prison in this dazzling mystery.

  • Book Jacket

    The Fairbanks Four
    by Brian Patrick O’Donoghue

    One murder, four guilty convictions, and a community determined to find justice.

  • Book Jacket

    Happy Land
    by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

    From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel about a family's secret ties to a vanished American Kingdom.

  • Book Jacket

    The Seven O'Clock Club
    by Amelia Ireland

    Four strangers join an experimental treatment to heal broken hearts in Amelia Ireland's heartfelt debut novel.

Who Said...

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever ...

Click Here to find out who said this, as well as discovering other famous literary quotes!

Wordplay

Solve this clue:

A C on H S

and be entered to win..

Your guide toexceptional          books

BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.