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A Winter Grave

a chilling new mystery set in the Scottish highlands

Peter May author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Quercus Publishing

Published:20th Jul '23

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A #4 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
From the twelve-million copy bestselling author of the Lewis trilogy comes a chilling new mystery set in the isolated Scottish Highlands.

A TOMB OF ICE

A young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in Kinlochleven discovers the body of a missing man entombed in ice.

A DYING DETECTIVE

Cameron Brodie, a Glasgow detective, sets out on a hazardous journey to the isolated and ice-bound village. He has his own reasons for wanting to investigate a murder case so far from his beat.

AN AGONIZING RECKONING

Brodie must face up to the ghosts of his past and to a killer determined to bury forever the chilling secret that his investigation threatens to expose.

Set against a backdrop of a frighteningly plausible near-future, A WINTER GRAVE is Peter May at his page-turning, passionate and provocative best.

A Winter Grave is timely and chilling, painting a disturbing picture of the future . . . it's a meticulously researched thriller with gravitas that grips from the first page . . . May's first novel in two years is among the best he's written. * S Magazine, Sunday Express *
May has created a chilling believable near future . . . an atmospheric locked room mystery . . . this is as chilling as much for May's vision of where the we're heading as for the body count. * Observer *
A gripping thriller set in a near future ravaged by the climate crisis. * Scots Mag *
A Winter Grave is a superb thriller loaded with timely warnings. * Yorkshire Post *

ISBN: 9781529428520

Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 26mm

Weight: 260g

368 pages