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A dead body encased in ice, multiple murders, and political corruption combine with addiction and a family drama that is irresistible - a one sitting read for me! In other hands, all the detailed scientific information in the novel – not to mention the underlying political message – could have become heavy-handed. A young meteorologist named Addie is checking a mountain top weather station and discovers the body of a man encased by ice.
We now get to meet police detective Cameron Brodie who has been sent to investigate the body on the mountain. Whereas climate change has made equatorial countries uninhabitable due to an increase in temperature, a shift in the Gulf Stream has rendered Northern Scotland an icy wilderness. His backstory slowly emerges as he reveals it to his daughter and it is extremely poignant and heartfelt. However, the investigation is just an ostensible reason; primarily he wishes to reconcile with the woman who discovered the body, his estranged daughter, Addie. Thanks to the ruined landscape and extreme weather, the atmosphere is oppressive, as Brodie considers the handful of likely suspects and their potential motivations.Now Brodie is investigating a mysterious murder but soon he is going to have his hands full with another. Warnings of climate catastrophe have been ignored, and vast areas of the planet are under water, or uninhabitably hot. He has received a death sentence of his own, and has something personal he has to get out of the way before he departs this earth for good. 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. 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 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. Alongside an absorbing and action-packed crime story, and the depiction of the potential impacts of climate change on the world, is Inspector Cameron Brodie’s deeply personal story, told through flashbacks to 2023. It’s against this backdrop that we meet Addie, a meteorologist who checks mountain top weather stations in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands, but she’s unprepared for her latest discovery - the body of a man entombed in ice. There are some very good dynamics between the key characters especially Cameron and Addie with that situation being in constant flux. Then, the climbing over of them and the crawling under, all while painstakingly creating a distinctive, remarkably unremarkable, world.What he’d been doing on a mountain top is a mystery, as those who knew him said he wasn’t an experienced hill walker at all. It was 2051 and Detective Cameron Brodie was a veteran cop out of Glasgow, when a body was discovered deeply entombed in the ice high above the little village of Kinlochleven. Whilst parts of the world are suffering extreme heat, prompting the migration of millions of people from Africa and Asia to Europe, great swathes of Scotland are now under water due to rising sea levels caused by the melting of the Greenland ice sheets and the country now has the climate of northern Norway. Scotland has its independence and has made itself self sufficient in energy by building a nuclear power plant. 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.
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