Peter May was born and raised in Scotland.
Peter now lives in South-West France with his wife, writer Janice Hally..
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 .
In 2021, he was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library Award.
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.
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 was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six.
Peter May was born and raised in Scotland
