In this uniquely strange, bold and true new world that Peter May has created, there are MIRIAD thrills, humor, horror, satisfaction and WONDER. But making their way through the snow and ice, the International Hotel where they were staying, loomed large. The following morning, despite an ongoing power failure, Sita conducts her PM and concludes that Younger was murdered, noting some anomalies about his body in her findings. DISCLOSURE: Thank you to Quercus Books via Netgalley for providing a digital ARC of A Winter Grave by Peter May for review.

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. Glasgow Police DI Cameron Brodie, fresh from failing to get murder conviction due to technical complications, rejects his DCI’s request to accompany the pathologist to perform a post mortem on Younger, and, noting his expertise in hill walking, examine the scene. May ha la grandissima qualità di non annegare di chiacchere inutili i suoi romanzi-gialli, tirando dritto al punto, e concedendosi spazio in più solo per la descrizione della natura e dell'ambiente, che riesce sempre a restituire con tinte mozzafiato.By contrast, melting ice sheets have brought the Gulf Stream to a halt and northern latitudes, including Scotland, are being hit by snow and ice storms. It’s good that I make a habit of trying nót to read too much information and/or reviews before I read a book myself.

There’s even a role for future technology the prospect of which might either thrill you or appall you depending on how you feel about flying in a pilotless plane or living in a 3D printed home.But when I glanced at the scant description for this one (‘a young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in Kinlochleven discovers the body of a missing man entombed in ice’) it immediately reminded me of those three cherished books. Thus, he has to trudge valiantly through waist-high drifts of necessary detail, power through violent, punishing storms of cultural alteration, be constantly assaulted by an insistent hail of “ifs”, then carried away by, and survive, a tsunami of his own creation, made up of both ocean and discovery. There are multiple twists and turns throughout the novel which kept me on the edge of my seat, and an ending I never saw coming.

He and his best friend Tiny had been friends since they were young and couldn't be closer, always having each other's backs. There are flashbacks to the present time that explore Brodie's early police career, his marriage, and family drama. Quando lo metti giù è tutto un po' incredibile (il detective Brodie è dotato di occhialetti che manco James Bond, ma il giornalista Younger stenografa), ma va bene così.Warnings of climate catastrophe have been ignored, and vast areas of the planet are under water, or uninhabitably hot. I love the attention to detail in things such as possible advances between 2022/23 and the future and he makes it feel plausible.