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  • Written by: Peter May
  • Narrated by: Peter Forbes
  • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)

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Cast Iron

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Publisher's Summary

IN THE RED-HOT FINALE TO PETER MAY'S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ENZO FILES, ENZO MACLEOD WILL FACE HIS MOST CHALLENGING COLD CASE YET.

"ENDS MACLEOD'S QUEST WITH A FLOURISH." (MARILYN STASIO, THE NEW YORK TIMES)

"A SATISFYING SURPRISE." (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)

"THE LAST SHALL BE BEST." (KIRKUS REVIEWS)

Western France, 1989
A weeping killer deposits the unconscious body of 20-year-old Lucie Martin, her head wrapped in a blue plastic bag, into the waters of a picturesque lake.

Lot-et-Garonne, 2003
Fourteen years later, a summer heat wave parches the countryside, killing trees and bushes and drying out streams. In the scorched mud and desiccated slime of the lake, a fisherman finds a skeleton wearing a bag over its skull.

Paris, October 2011
In an elegant apartment in Paris, forensic expert Enzo Macleod, now 56 years old, pores over the scant evidence of the sixth and final cold case he has been challenged to solve. The most obvious suspect is Régis Blanc, a former pimp already imprisoned for the murders of three sex workers, who may have been Lucie's lover in the months before her disappearance. But Régis has a solid alibi, and Enzo has a feeling the real explanation might be more complicated. In taking on this old and seemingly impossible-to-crack case, Enzo puts everything and everyone he holds dear in terrible danger - and in ways even he never could have imagined.

©2017 Peter May (P)2019 Hachette Audio

What the critics say

"Enzo is an irascible, complex protagonist, with more than his share of personal loss, often masked by bravado. This is the sixth and final book in May's gripping series - and one of the best." (Library Journal)

"The last book in this series, and it ends Macleod's quest with a flourish."(Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times)

"Cast Iron is shot through with the dark legacy of the past." (The Guardian)

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Another great story!

Peter May has written very good stories, and this one is another one to add to an illustrious collection. Character and plot are nicely interwoven for great entertainment.

Peter Forbes does an excellent job once again!

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Worthy fInale to Enzo McLeod series

This review contains some spoilers.
Overall excellent narrative story telling at a nice pace, some books better than others. The author's style matures during the series and the telling improves although certain phrases or words are oft repeated, e.g. desuetude, retinas. Also repeated are some slightly clunky plot devices like the baddies offing themselves or being poleaxed or shot from behind just before they can kill Enzo. At times the murderer becomes a little too easy to spot. It was hard to suspend disbelief that the woman Enzo met in a bar when everything else went wrong was not outed much sooner. Charlotte's changing persona certainly telegraphed my suspicions. The killer revelation in Gaillac in The Critic was a bit post modern Scooby Do.
Nevertheless thoroughly enjoyable thanks to the superb narration by Peter Forbes who never puts a foot wrong with his very consistent character voices, accents and overall reading pace and style. Nice Glaswegian humor at times making me imagine Enzo as some kind of scientific Billy Connolly avatar. I learned much about France as an educational bonus from the series. For example the information about the French elite school system and the underrated wines of Gaillac was interesting.
The best story, I thought, was Freeze Frame thanks to the threading together of World War II history, the Agadir earthquake and the strange folk of a Brittany island against the back drop of a word puzzle.
Sometimes, the lesser cast members are left out. At the end of the series (??) we never find out whether Nicole did return to University and how things went for Bertrand after he almost died.
I gravitated to these books after the Lewis trilogy which was brilliant, these slightly less so but still very good.

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