But why, they both wonder, was a journalist with no hill-walking experience take the difficult trail up to a high peak?

He has plans to have conversations with his estranged daughter who is based in the remote Highland village. A young meteorologist takes a work based trek up a mountain and is faced with a dead body, frozen in ice. Brodie hasn’t long left on this earth but in the time remaining he wants to lay to rest the ghosts of the past, attempt a reconciliation and, perhaps, receive forgiveness.But certain incidents add an atmosphere of menace, and then there’s another murder, which won’t be the last before Brodie departs the Kinlochleven. The dead man is investigative reporter, George Younger, missing for three months after vanishing during what he claimed was a hill-walking holiday. The amazing standard of writing made me feel as though I was there in the snow, hail, blizzards, up the mountains.

Familiar landmarks, such as the Citizens’ Theatre and the Central Mosque lie decaying under several feet of water, and there is an epidemic of cockroaches. DISCLOSURE: Thank you to Quercus Books via Netgalley for providing a digital ARC of A Winter Grave by Peter May for review.A young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in Kinlochleven discovers the body of a missing man entombed in ice. 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. There are advances in technology, developments in transportation, and changes in the environment; there are also expected and unexpected complications in all areas. I subsequently dabbled with some of the author’s other books and found that none matched the heights May achieved with the Lewis books. From the twelve-million copy bestselling author of the Lewis trilogy comes a chilling new mystery set in the isolated Scottish Highlands.

Glasgow detective Cameron Brodie volunteers to fly out to investigate Younger’s death, but his ulterior motive is something else all together. Throughout it all there is atmosphere in abundance in the Highlands setting with cruel weather to further highlight the hazardous situations. Set against a backdrop of a frighteningly plausible near-future, A WINTER GRAVE is Peter May at his page-turning, passionate and provocative best.

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.

No torn-clothed mothers, dead-eyed and directionless, dragging behind them their emaciated children. Truth to tell, the James Bond glasses still grated on me and in limiting the cast to just a small number of players the author creates a place that feels somewhat unreal, a contrived space where everyone seems to hide from sight.I must have purchased this without reading the 'blurb', because its setting in the future took me completely by surprise. 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.