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

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In 2005, May could not find a publisher for his book “Lockdown,” set in the midst of a devastating global pandemic, but it became a best seller in 2020 as readers struggled with that very issue. I don't know how much they could hear, or why they would want to, but they ran off through the snow when I went after them with my torch.

The Clyde has spread out over the city, bringing filth, rank odours and disease to the streets, which are now navigated by water taxis.

But why, they both wonder, was a journalist with no hill-walking experience take the difficult trail up to a high peak? For those who like action, there’s plenty of it and for those who like intrigue, there’s plenty of that as well. Brodie is a detective sent to investigate the body of a journalist found frozen in the snow in Scotland . Instead he makes a massive comment on it, one which I - and I hope many others - have worried about, and will continue to argue.

Most of this gripping, thought-provoking story is set in the near future, almost 30 years from the present, in the Highlands of Scotland. Initially reluctant, he eventually does go which begins the reader’s initiation into possibilities of future travel and its dangers. 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. A dying detective travels to a northern outpost to investigate the death of a man found in the snow.

Younger was no walker making his discovery on a mountain-top near the Highland village of Kinlochleven unexplainable. Ferocious storms have become a frequent occurrence for the residents of Kinlochleven, resulting in power cuts and the loss of communications with the outside world for days at a time. Venturing out into a particularly violent storm, Brodie witnesses the extreme weather conditions for himself. I love the attention to detail in things such as possible advances between 2022/23 and the future and he makes it feel plausible.

It wasn’t until now, with his own death imminent, that he had been moved, finally, to drag all the skeletons from the closet, and lay them out to be judged. From the twelve-million copy bestselling author of the Lewis trilogy comes a chilling new mystery set in the isolated Scottish Highlands. What he’d been doing on a mountain top is a mystery, as those who knew him said he wasn’t an experienced hill walker at all. 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. I must have purchased this without reading the 'blurb', because its setting in the future took me completely by surprise.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. 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. Now, the CHARACTERS, most particularly our HERO, Cameron, a detective of some kind, does not battle with what the world has become, longing for “what used to/should again be”. 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.