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

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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. The dynamic is further tipped when the detective investigating turns out to be the young woman’s (estranged) father who has his own personal troubles and time ticking for him in more ways than one. Younger was no walker making his discovery on a mountain-top near the Highland village of Kinlochleven unexplainable.

With comms and the internet still down, and the Ice storm having cut off the village, Brodie continues to investigate this puzzling murder. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Readers follow him as he conducts the investigation in the present and also delve deeply into his past, learning how he got to his troubled present. 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. The power was out, there was no hot food or drink to be had, and the body of George Younger, which had been refrigerated in a cake cabinet, was rapidly thawing.A quarter of the world's population has been displaced by hunger and flooding, and immigration wars are breaking out around the globe as refugees pour into neighboring countries.

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.Glasgow detective Cameron Brodie volunteers to attend a crime scene in the mountains where a body has been discovered frozen in the ice. What follows is a story that take place in both 2051 and 2023 the changes in times were sometime jarring but once I got use to it I settled into the story.

Add to this a central character prepared to give his all in one last fight and you have a totally gripping crime thriller that is chilling in more ways than one. He received the USA's Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.In this standalone novel, Cameron Brodie, a cop has just been handed a bad prognosis from his doctor. It’s good that I make a habit of trying nót to read too much information and/or reviews before I read a book myself. Set almost 30 years into the future with a futuristic, automated "helicopter" controlled by the robotic "Eve", and with many other technological devices, plus the devastating effects of climate change, I found Cameron to be a great character. It is against this backdrop that Addie, a young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station, discovers the body of a man entombed in ice.