While the equatorial world is now too hot to sustain life, Scotland has become a country divided between rain and blizzards. It is a reporter from The Herald who is identified as the body in the ice cave, and Brodie sets off to investigate, with connections from his own dark past adding to his reasons to want to visit Kinlochleven. As another storm closes off communications and the possibility of escape, Brodie must face up not only to the ghosts of his past, but to a killer determined to bury forever the chilling secret that George Younger's investigations had threatened to expose.

With comms and the internet still down, and the Ice storm having cut off the village, Brodie continues to investigate this puzzling murder. DI Cameron Brodie from the Glasgow police force and pathologist Dr Sita Roy are sent to Kinlochleven to investigate. A young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in Kinlochleven discovers the body of a missing man entombed in ice.Younger’s body has been kept in a refrigerated cabinet of a local hotel, and pathologist Dr Sita Roy, has uncovered some very interesting facts about him, something which puts herself and Brodie in danger. He has just been given a devastating medical prognosis by his doctor and knows the time has come to face his estranged daughter who has made her home in the remote Highland village. She takes a selfie which captures her, the tunnel and, to her horror, a mans body entirely encased in the ice. What she found left no room for doubt that he was murdered - and immediately put herself and Cameron in intense danger.

Brodie must fast his past as well as a killer who is desperate to keep secret what George Younger’s investigations had threatened to expose. DISCLOSURE: Thank you to Quercus Books via Netgalley for providing a digital ARC of A Winter Grave by Peter May for review.

Now, in “A Winter Grave,” he gives readers a glimpse into life in 2053 – the good and the bad, the different and the same. 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 is also the personal background of the characters, and in the end the stories come very neatly together, although not always as the reader would hope.

What I loved about Peter May’s latest novel is the characters hat really bring a personal touch to the plot especially when it comes to DI Cameron Brodie and Addie Sinclair and Cameron now needs to tell her who he really is. It wasn’t until now, with his own death imminent, that he had been moved, finally, to drag all the skeletons from the closet, and lay them out to be judged. Against this backdrop, Addie checks the mountain top weather station she instals above Kinlochleven in the Highlands when she notices what appears to be an ice tunnel which has created a cathedral like arch. 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 .They help us to identify popular products and understand your browsing habits so we can display relevant adverts to you. 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. The description of this journey is spellbinding, as the drone sweeps over the utter devastation of coastal towns and the searing majesty of the Highlands, leaving the reader as buffeted between dread and wonder as the aircraft is by an incoming storm. And Brodie is determined to take what may be his last opportunity to tell his daughter what he has been silent about for the ten years since her mother’s death.