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

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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.

There’s more going on here, Brodie is estranged from his daughter who just happens to be married to the local police officer. It’s the year 2051, and the subject of climate change has been ignored for so long, and now it’s too late, with catastrophic changes taking place across the world. 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. Many areas of the world are under water; others too hot to be habitable, and if you think that there's a refugee problem now, just wait . When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BBC, he quit journalism and during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland's most successful television dramatists.The Blackhouse was published in English by the award-winning Quercus (a relatively young publishing house which did not exist when the book was first presented to British publishers). He is the creator of three major television drama series and presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland before quitting television to concentrate on his first love, writing novels. No wild, insanely-laughing and hooting gangs of killers/looters/madmen roaming the ravaged streets, their sole purpose to snuff out the few remaining embers of humanity (I should think the definitive masterpiece, “A Clockwork Orange”, would have sewn all of that up for us, and under a glass-topped coffee table whose “legs” are a naked, plasticized woman)! 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.

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.The Clyde has spread out over the city, bringing filth, rank odours and disease to the streets, which are now navigated by water taxis. By contrast, melting ice sheets have brought the Gulf Stream to a halt and northern latitudes, including Scotland, are being hit by snow and ice storms. 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. Various wars sparked by the resulting wave of migration are taking place, and in Glasgow racial unrest is rife.

In November 2051, a young meteorologist is checking her weather station in the western Scottish Highlands when she comes across a body in a patch of ice in a corrie. There is enough here to keep you really guessing as to what really is going on and who is behind the murders and why. Pathologist Dr Sita Roy joined Cameron on their journey, arriving in the middle of a ferocious ice storm. And, as yet another vicious storm closes off the village, together with all communications, Brodie will discover that Younger’s body won’t be the last! 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.

The mix allows the story to develop in the way it does but there’s also a degree of incongruity about the whole thing. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. While he digests this he is dispatched off to Kinlochleven in the Scottish Highlands, in an e-chopper and freshly kitted out with all singing and dancing James Bond style glasses.