A Winter Grave, Peter May
A Winter Grave, Peter May
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A Winter Grave
a chilling new mystery set in the Scottish highlands

Author: Peter May

Narrator: Peter Forbes

Unabridged: 9 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: riverrun

Published: 01/19/2023

Synopsis

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 best.

(P) 2023 Quercus Editions Limited

About Peter May

Peter May was born and raised in Scotland. He was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. 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. He created three prime-time drama series, presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland as script editor and producer, and worked on more than 1,000 episodes of ratings-topping drama before deciding to leave television to return to his first love, writing novels.In 2021, he was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library Award. He has also won several literature awards in France, received the USA's Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 was awarded the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year award for Entry Island. Peter now lives in South-West France with his wife, writer Janice Hally.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ceecee on November 26, 2022

It’s 2051 and despite climate activists clear warnings, vast quantities of the planet are now under water with some countries having entirely disappeared resulting in refugees seeking homes wherever there is land. In Scotland the melting ice caps halt the Gulf Stream effect which means it is frequen......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on May 12, 2024

I was recommended the books that comprise Peter May’s Lewis Trilogy by a friend who is, for the most part, a non-reader. This fact alone piqued my interest, and once I’d devoured the first book, I quickly gobbled up the other two. They remain, for me, amongst the best crime fiction stories I’ve read......more

Goodreads review by Bam cooks the books on January 16, 2023

*4.5 stars rounded up. Brrr! Bring out the hot chocolate and afghan and turn up the heat for this chill-inducing thriller! 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. Many parts of the world are underwater or so hot......more

Goodreads review by Gary on December 11, 2022

A standalone novel set in the year 2051 by author Peter May. Vast areas of the world are under water or not habitable because of excessive heat due to the constant neglect of climate warnings. Because of this a quarter of the world’s population has been moved due to hunger and flooding, forcing refug......more

Quotes

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

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