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

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Pathologist Dr Sita Roy joined Cameron on their journey, arriving in the middle of a ferocious ice storm. 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. I don't remember Peter May previously setting any of his novels in the future, but correct me if I am wrong.

Melting ice sheets have resulted in Scotland being constantly hit by raging snow storms and thick ice. 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.

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. Although this is set in 2051, the only thing different about life is some select technology that is very subtle and made me really enjoy that aspect of the book. A twist on the tale of embittered veteran cop taking on shady forces and murder whilst dealing with the harsh elements of a future that has thrown Scotland into a much colder climate. 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). It was 2051 and Detective Cameron Brodie was a veteran cop out of Glasgow, when a body was discovered deeply entombed in the ice high above the little village of Kinlochleven.

The dead man is investigative reporter, George Younger, missing for three months after vanishing during what he claimed was a hill-walking holiday. He is identified as George Younger, an investigative reporter who went missing three months earlier. However, the investigation is just an ostensible reason; primarily he wishes to reconcile with the woman who discovered the body, his estranged daughter, Addie. 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. But as this crime novel progressed, I liked the story, some of it a bit predictable but it kept me guessing.In 2014 Entry Island won both the Scottish Crime Novel of the Year and a CWA Dagger as the ITV Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year. Set almost 30 years into the future with a futuristic, automated "helicopter" controlled by the robotic "Eve", and with many other technological devices, plus the devastating effects of climate change, I found Cameron to be a great character. Meanwhile, Brodie has kept to himself the fact that the woman who found the body, the wife of the local bobby, is his estranged daughter.