A Winter Grave: a chilling new mystery set in the Scottish highlands

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He has a business purpose and a personal one as the individual who discovered the body is his estranged daughter, Addie.

Then, the climbing over of them and the crawling under, all while painstakingly creating a distinctive, remarkably unremarkable, world.Most of this gripping, thought-provoking story is set in the near future, almost 30 years from the present, in the Highlands of Scotland.

Detective Inspector Cameron Brodie has a lot on his mind when asked to volunteer to travel to the West Highlands to investigate a body found in the ice, to establish whether a crime had been committed. A young meteorologist named Addie is checking a mountain top weather station and discovers the body of a man encased by ice. The following day, with the assistance of the local cop, as well as Cameron, Dr Roy performed the autopsy of Mr Younger. Equally credible is the immensely sobering climate change scenario and the political impact this could have.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. While initially these threads may have felt a bit disparate, they came to flow well together for me, filling in aspects of the story as and when needed for the sake of all the characters involved. The setting is the wild and cold highlands of Scotland, made even wilder and colder due to the climate change.

She takes a selfie which captures her, the tunnel and, to her horror, a mans body entirely encased in the ice. Brodie must face up to the ghosts of his past and to a killer determined to bury forever the chilling secret that his investigation threatens to expose. It went on to become an international best seller, and was shortlisted for both Barry Award and Macavity Award when it was published in the USA.

Venturing out into a particularly violent storm, Brodie witnesses the extreme weather conditions for himself. If this was not enough to cause despair, he has learned that he has only six months, perhaps less, to live. And for those here on GR who read Dutch: I reviewed Firemaker, The Killing Room (De moordkamer) and Chinese Whispers (De seriemoordenaar).

But, THIS author, refreshingly, leaves behind all that has become common and cliched about our near-future.The mix allows the story to develop in the way it does but there’s also a degree of incongruity about the whole thing. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The characters are excellent, especially the portrayal of Brodie allowing you to really understand him, his life and circumstances as the novel takes us back to 2023.