Brodie seeks to find his estranged daughter and make things right while solving a dissapeance in the northern climes of Scotland. I wasn't keen when I started this book which is set partly in the present time and partly in 2050, a very different world where the UK is partially submerged in water and suffering from extreme weather conditions. I love the attention to detail in things such as possible advances between 2022/23 and the future and he makes it feel plausible. Sita Roy, find themselves the sole guests at the inappropriately named International Hotel, where Younger's body has been kept refrigerated in a cake cabinet.

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 . Interspersed throughout Brodie’s narrative are flashbacks to 2023, when he first met Addie’s mother, gradually revealing what has weighed so heavily on Brodie’s conscience for a decade. The three things I mentioned above were total surprises for me because I didn’t know this before I started reading and this added to my reading pleasure. There is enough here to keep you really guessing as to what really is going on and who is behind the murders and why. 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.Melting ice sheets have resulted in Scotland being constantly hit by raging snow storms and thick ice. A young meteorologist named Addie is checking a mountain top weather station and discovers the body of a man encased by ice. 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 . He received the USA's Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy.

Then, the climbing over of them and the crawling under, all while painstakingly creating a distinctive, remarkably unremarkable, world. While the equatorial world is now too hot to sustain life, Scotland has become a country divided between rain and blizzards. A dying detective travels to a northern outpost to investigate the death of a man found in the snow. He is the creator of three major television drama series and presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland before quitting television to concentrate on his first love, writing novels. Someone is trying to conceal some extremely crucial information in this Highland village, something that cost George Younger his life.He has plans to have conversations with his estranged daughter who is based in the remote Highland village. Equally credible is the immensely sobering climate change scenario and the political impact this could have.