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

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But Younger was no hill walker, and his discovery on a mountain-top near the Highland village of Kinlochleven, is inexplicable. Cameron is uniquely intelligent, heartbreakingly empathetic and must use Herculean focus to even hear anything above the ticking of the clock he has become. Timings around the effects of climate change have been truncated, as has the speed of technical advances, so it takes a while to get used to what is supposed to be happening. The dead man is investigative reporter, George Younger who has been missing for three months after going missing on a supposed walking holiday.

Hailstorms flew out of the darkness like sparks, deflecting off the windscreen… He could barely see the road ahead of him, hail blowing around and drifting like snow on the recently cleared tarmac. 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.After a slightly rocky introduction, Brodie finds that he gets on quite well with police pathologist Dr Sita Roy, and both are relieved when their eVTOL (electric helicopter) sets them down safely during an ice storm, in the blacked-out village of Kinlochleven. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. There’s humour although this rightly diminishes as danger levels rise, there’s plenty of tension, excitement accompanied by a building menace and peril. In this uniquely strange, bold and true new world that Peter May has created, there are MIRIAD thrills, humor, horror, satisfaction and WONDER.

Brodie has much on his mind as the story progresses and his personal situation is appalling to imagine, but he never gives up. He and his best friend Tiny had been friends since they were young and couldn't be closer, always having each other's backs. Someone is trying to conceal some extremely crucial information in this Highland village, something that cost George Younger his life. I was confused and found that I wasn’t enjoying this tale much at all - I was already considering giving up on it. I have always enjoyed this authors writing and even though I wasn’t fully convinced by this novel I still enjoyed it.

In the dark and the cold, there are grim discoveries and mysterious goings-on, both up on the ridge and in the hotel’s cake fridge. Set against a backdrop of a frighteningly plausible near-future, A WINTER GRAVE is Peter May at his page-turning, passionate and provocative best.

We’re only a handful of decades ahead and the landscape and environmental narrative is all very plausible which makes it even the more chilling a possibility, pun intended. She takes a selfie which captures her, the tunnel and, to her horror, a mans body entirely encased in the ice.Brodie seeks to find his estranged daughter and make things right while solving a dissapeance in the northern climes of Scotland. 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. A Winter Grave is set in the Scotland of 2051 where the effects of climate change we've been warned about have become a reality. Thanks to the ruined landscape and extreme weather, the atmosphere is oppressive, as Brodie considers the handful of likely suspects and their potential motivations. The blackout prevents instant analysis of the likely killer’s DNA, as well as stopping their eVTOL being recharged, effectively grounding them.