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

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There’s more going on here, Brodie is estranged from his daughter who just happens to be married to the local police officer. With comms and the internet still down, and the Ice storm having cut off the village, Brodie continues to investigate this puzzling murder.

Melting ice sheets have resulted in Scotland being constantly hit by raging snow storms and thick ice. In 2003 I read Firemaker, the first thriller by Peter May, and although the details are a bit fuzzy, I still remember how impressed I was with this 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! 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. The Sci-Fi aspects are impressive and common to the beneficiaries, who live with and utilize them as casually as we pop a pizza into the microwave and drive our unnecessarily accessorized cars, with Bluetooth blaring our own music at us from our own phones (Lord, remember how listening to THE RADIO used to INTRODUCE US to new songs and bands?

The story blends climate change, political intrigue and instability, coverups, domestic troubles, and a police procedural with danger, mysteries and murder. 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.

Brodie has much on his mind as the story progresses and his personal situation is appalling to imagine, but he never gives up. Glasgow Police DI Cameron Brodie, fresh from failing to get murder conviction due to technical complications, rejects his DCI’s request to accompany the pathologist to perform a post mortem on Younger, and, noting his expertise in hill walking, examine the scene. A twist on the tale of embittered veteran cop taking on shady forces and murder whilst dealing with the harsh elements of a future that has thrown Scotland into a much colder climate.Set in 2051, so not that far in the future, the world has undergone massive climate and political change. Venturing out into a particularly violent storm, Brodie witnesses the extreme weather conditions for himself.

It is a winter day; the air is a crystal-clear blue; the sun spreads golden rays on the land below, and a woman is checking a weather sensors station.In this standalone novel, Cameron Brodie, a cop has just been handed a bad prognosis from his doctor. He is identified as George Younger, an investigative reporter who went missing three months earlier.

As another storm closes off communications and the possibility of escape, Brodie must face up not only to the ghosts of his past, but to a killer determined to bury forever the chilling secret that George Younger's investigations had threatened to expose. 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. Ultimately the book which was supposed to be a page turner, ended up being heavy and failed to leave a real impact. 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.The setting is the wild and cold highlands of Scotland, made even wilder and colder due to the climate change. May paints a clear, poetic, and tragic picture of the wreck of a man he has become, but several things in his life are also about to change. I was confused and found that I wasn’t enjoying this tale much at all - I was already considering giving up on it. A Winter Grave takes place in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands; one that is in the grip of an ice storm. Set against a backdrop of a frighteningly plausible near-future, A WINTER GRAVE is Peter May at his page-turning, passionate and provocative best.