Encased in ice inside an ice tunnel is a body of a man but how did he get here and what really happened to him. Brodie must face up to the ghosts of his past and to a killer determined to bury forever the chilling secret that his investigation threatens to expose. He and his best friend Tiny had been friends since they were young and couldn't be closer, always having each other's backs. 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.

Glasgow detective Cameron Brodie volunteers to fly out to investigate Younger’s death, but his ulterior motive is something else all together. They help us to identify popular products and understand your browsing habits so we can display relevant adverts to you.Venturing out into a particularly violent storm, Brodie witnesses the extreme weather conditions for himself. May is neither reassuring nor particularly apocalyptic, not bothering, thank god, with the word “apocalyptic’s” now widely accepted and worn out characteristics. I'm a reader who struggles to really visualize scenery, the author was descriptive and helped with this, but occasionally felt like it was too much and just slowed the book down. There’s humour although this rightly diminishes as danger levels rise, there’s plenty of tension, excitement accompanied by a building menace and peril. But now we learn that global warming has taken a dreadful toll on the planet and wholesale changes have taken place, more changes than I could have thought possible given the length of time elapsed.

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. What May does with out being preachy, is to get you to focus on the possible outcomes of global warming. The body has been identified as missing journalist Charles Younger but now the question is what happened to Mr Younger was it an accident or was it fowl play. Cameron is uniquely intelligent, heartbreakingly empathetic and must use Herculean focus to even hear anything above the ticking of the clock he has become. After being turned down by all the major UK publishers, the first of the The Lewis Trilogy - The Blackhouse - was published in France as L'Ile des Chasseurs d'Oiseaux where it was hailed as "a masterpiece" by the French national newspaper L'Humanité.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. I love the attention to detail in things such as possible advances between 2022/23 and the future and he makes it feel plausible. In 2003 I read Firemaker, the first thriller by Peter May, and although the details are a bit fuzzy, I still remember how impressed I was with this book.

However, the investigation is just an ostensible reason; primarily he wishes to reconcile with the woman who discovered the body, his estranged daughter, Addie. I have always enjoyed this authors writing and even though I wasn’t fully convinced by this novel I still enjoyed it.The amazing standard of writing made me feel as though I was there in the snow, hail, blizzards, up the mountains. 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. What follows is a gripping action adventure, incorporating elements of political corruption and heart wrenching family drama, set inside a dystopian projection of the future which is scaringly credible. From the twelve-million copy bestselling author of the Lewis trilogy comes a chilling new mystery set in the isolated Scottish Highlands.