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

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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. For those who like action, there’s plenty of it and for those who like intrigue, there’s plenty of that as well.

I was recommended the books that comprise Peter May’s Lewis Trilogy by a friend who is for the most part a non-reader.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.

Set in 2051, so not that far in the future, the world has undergone massive climate and political change. 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. But evidence uncovered during his autopsy places the lives of both Brodie and Roy in extreme jeopardy.Warnings of climate catastrophe have been ignored, and vast areas of the planet are under water, or uninhabitably hot. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Whereas climate change has made equatorial countries uninhabitable due to an increase in temperature, a shift in the Gulf Stream has rendered Northern Scotland an icy wilderness.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. May is neither reassuring nor particularly apocalyptic, not bothering, thank god, with the word “apocalyptic’s” now widely accepted and worn out characteristics. The descriptions of the lonely, beautiful place Brodie visited and of the people he met there are wonderfully described, and I was surprised to discover that I now cared about the fate of this man; I wanted him to find answers, to resolve the unresolved. A young meteorologist takes a work based trek up a mountain and is faced with a dead body, frozen in ice. But when I glanced at the scant description for this one (‘a young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in Kinlochleven discovers the body of a missing man entombed in ice’) it immediately reminded me of those three cherished books.

My thanks to Quercus Books for providing a copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. It’s a difficult story to sum up and also a hard book to rate as I had such mixed feelings about the various elements here.Glasgow detective Cameron Brodie volunteers to fly out to investigate Younger’s death, but his ulterior motive is something else all together. From the twelve-million copy bestselling author of the Lewis trilogy comes a chilling new mystery set in the isolated Scottish Highlands. However, it is clever and innovative, and the ultimate truth of how necessary it is to make a difference with your life, lasts after you finish reading.