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

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Initially reluctant, he eventually does go which begins the reader’s initiation into possibilities of future travel and its dangers. Various wars sparked by the resulting wave of migration are taking place, and in Glasgow racial unrest is rife. In other hands, all the detailed scientific information in the novel – not to mention the underlying political message – could have become heavy-handed. Author Peter May has a knack for taking society’s current situations and extrapolating them to the future.

However, the investigation is just an ostensible reason; primarily he wishes to reconcile with the woman who discovered the body, his estranged daughter, Addie. He has received a death sentence of his own, and has something personal he has to get out of the way before he departs this earth for good. Sita Roy, find themselves the sole guests at the inappropriately named International Hotel, where Younger's body has been kept refrigerated in a cake cabinet. From the twelve-million copy bestselling author of the Lewis trilogy comes a chilling new mystery set in the isolated Scottish Highlands.Venturing out into a particularly violent storm, Brodie witnesses the extreme weather conditions for himself. With thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for my digital ARC to read in exchange for an honest review. A dying detective travels to a northern outpost to investigate the death of a man found in the snow.

Because of this a quarter of the world’s population has been moved due to hunger and flooding, forcing refuges no other option but to escape into other countries. Alongside an absorbing and action-packed crime story, and the depiction of the potential impacts of climate change on the world, is Inspector Cameron Brodie’s deeply personal story, told through flashbacks to 2023.For those who like action, there’s plenty of it and for those who like intrigue, there’s plenty of that as well. And Brodie is determined to take what may be his last opportunity to tell his daughter what he has been silent about for the ten years since her mother’s death.

I have always enjoyed this authors writing and even though I wasn’t fully convinced by this novel I still enjoyed it. The body has been identified as missing journalist Charles Younger but now the question is what happened to Mr Younger was it an accident or was it fowl play. Cameron volunteered to investigate as he knew his estranged daughter Addie was living in Kinlochleven and he wanted to see her before it was too late. 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. The three stories, of climate, of crime, of family, work out along side each other, though the climate story really hasn’t worked out at all!It is a reporter from The Herald who is identified as the body in the ice cave, and Brodie sets off to investigate, with connections from his own dark past adding to his reasons to want to visit Kinlochleven.

Air travel by plane is no longer possible, as the main airports are now underwater, but Brodie flies in a pre-programmed unpiloted drone over the West Coast, stopping in Mull to pick up a charismatic pathologist, Dr Sita Roy, tasked with carrying out an autopsy on the recovered body. It was 2051 and Detective Cameron Brodie was a veteran cop out of Glasgow, when a body was discovered deeply entombed in the ice high above the little village of Kinlochleven.It’s the year 2051, and the subject of climate change has been ignored for so long, and now it’s too late, with catastrophic changes taking place across the world.