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

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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! Author Peter May has a knack for taking society’s current situations and extrapolating them to the future. A Winter Grave takes place in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands; one that is in the grip of an ice storm. Glasgow detective Cameron Brodie volunteers to attend a crime scene in the mountains where a body has been discovered frozen in the ice.

While the equatorial world is now too hot to sustain life, Scotland has become a country divided between rain and blizzards. I was recommended the books that comprise Peter May’s Lewis Trilogy by a friend who is for the most part a non-reader.I subsequently dabbled with some of the author’s other books and found that none matched the heights May achieved with the Lewis books.

There’s even a role for future technology the prospect of which might either thrill you or appall you depending on how you feel about flying in a pilotless plane or living in a 3D printed home. 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.Brodie has much on his mind as the story progresses and his personal situation is appalling to imagine, but he never gives up.

Suffice it to say that this is food for thought, and if you care about the future of the world, this book is essential reading, because it is a stark reminder of what ought to be being considered. 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. Set in the year 2051, after decades of politicians ignoring and denying the effects of climate change, the equatorial regions are now far too hot for human habitation, whole swathes of low-lying areas are totally submerged in the sea and, because of the destruction of the Gulf Stream, Scotland now suffers winters of stormy Arctic severity. I don't remember Peter May previously setting any of his novels in the future, but correct me if I am wrong.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 . May ha la grandissima qualità di non annegare di chiacchere inutili i suoi romanzi-gialli, tirando dritto al punto, e concedendosi spazio in più solo per la descrizione della natura e dell'ambiente, che riesce sempre a restituire con tinte mozzafiato. Pathologist Dr Sita Roy joined Cameron on their journey, arriving in the middle of a ferocious ice storm. Ultimately the book which was supposed to be a page turner, ended up being heavy and failed to leave a real impact.

A well-crafted plot, with action and intrigue, twists and red herrings, and a nail-biting climax, make this is another Peter May winner. A dead body encased in ice, multiple murders, and political corruption combine with addiction and a family drama that is irresistible - a one sitting read for me! Scotland has its independence and has made itself self sufficient in energy by building a nuclear power plant. No torn-clothed mothers, dead-eyed and directionless, dragging behind them their emaciated children.

The author presents a fascinating vision of things that may come - floods, famine, vast areas of land becoming unlivable, the deaths of millions of people across the globe. Younger was no walker making his discovery on a mountain-top near the Highland village of Kinlochleven unexplainable. May sets his story in a near future where an independent Scotland has rejoined the EU, and climate change has significantly raised sea levels, causing widespread flooding and a huge increase in climate refugees, which exacerbates racism, and a plague of resistant German cockroaches: he paints a realistic if rather frightening picture of how the world could look if climate change is allowed to progress at the current rate.