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

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But, THIS author, refreshingly, leaves behind all that has become common and cliched about our near-future. Author Peter May has a knack for taking society’s current situations and extrapolating them to the future.

While he digests this he is dispatched off to Kinlochleven in the Scottish Highlands, in an e-chopper and freshly kitted out with all singing and dancing James Bond style glasses. I wasn't keen when I started this book which is set partly in the present time and partly in 2050, a very different world where the UK is partially submerged in water and suffering from extreme weather conditions.

The book opens in the near future, not a huge step forward in time but massive changes have occurred. It’s not just the weather that provides the chills in ‘A Winter Grave’ - this is a remote Scottish Highland village, cut off by extreme weather conditions, no means of communication, a killer that clearly knows the landscape, and uses it to his advantage, a rollercoaster of emotions for Brodie and Addie, lots of twists and turns, utter fear at times, and a completely gripping storyline.

Melting ice sheets have resulted in Scotland being constantly hit by raging snow storms and thick ice. An immensely satisfying and enjoyable read and it will stay with me for a long time to come, I’m sure. Das Buch (englische Ausgabe) ist gut zu lesen, kann aber meiner Einschätzung nach nicht mit den Büchern der Enzo Files oder der China Thriller mithalten. But evidence uncovered during his autopsy places the lives of both Brodie and Roy in extreme jeopardy. Set in 2051, so not that far in the future, the world has undergone massive climate and political change.There is also the personal background of the characters, and in the end the stories come very neatly together, although not always as the reader would hope. Thus, he has to trudge valiantly through waist-high drifts of necessary detail, power through violent, punishing storms of cultural alteration, be constantly assaulted by an insistent hail of “ifs”, then carried away by, and survive, a tsunami of his own creation, made up of both ocean and discovery. This book is set in 2051 and climate catastrophe has arrived as it has long been predicted it would. Brodie is a detective sent to investigate the body of a journalist found frozen in the snow in Scotland .

The story blends climate change, political intrigue and instability, coverups, domestic troubles, and a police procedural with danger, mysteries and murder. From the twelve-million copy bestselling author of the Lewis trilogy comes a chilling new mystery set in the isolated Scottish Highlands. Investigating a spectacular natural ice cave, she looks up and encounters a man staring back at her, frozen into the ceiling with a terrified death mask. Meanwhile, Brodie has kept to himself the fact that the woman who found the body, the wife of the local bobby, is his estranged daughter. Glasgow detective Cameron Brodie volunteers to fly out to investigate Younger’s death, but his ulterior motive is something else all together.What follows is a gripping action adventure, incorporating elements of political corruption and heart wrenching family drama, set inside a dystopian projection of the future which is scaringly credible. Set against a backdrop of a frighteningly plausible near-future, A WINTER GRAVE is Peter May at his page-turning, passionate and provocative best. Then, the climbing over of them and the crawling under, all while painstakingly creating a distinctive, remarkably unremarkable, world. A dead body encased in ice, multiple murders, and political corruption combine with addiction and a family drama that is irresistible - a one sitting read for me!

Although this is set in 2051, the only thing different about life is some select technology that is very subtle and made me really enjoy that aspect of the book.

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! Il mix di futuro distopico, emergenza ambientale, ambientazione in Scozia (che però è diventata tipo Venezia), detective puro e duro con passato famigliare à la Mankell, descrizione naturalistiche come sempre mozzafiato .