Quercus Books

When builders renovating a café in King's Lynn find a human skeleton behind a wall, they call for DCI Harry Nelson and Dr Ruth Galloway, Head of Archaeology at the nearby University of North Norfolk. Ruth is preoccupied with the threatened closure of her department and by her ever-complicated relationship with Nelson. However, she agrees to look at the case. Ruth sees at once that the bone

A TOMB OF ICE A young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in Kinlochleven discovers the body of a man entombed in ice. A DYING DETECTIVE Cameron Brodie, a Glasgow detective, sets out on a hazardous journey to the isolated and ice-bound village. He has his own reasons for wanting to investigate the murder case so far from his beat. AN AGONIZING RECKONING Brodie must face up to

THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR.

THE RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK.

A dark story has been brought to terrifying life. Can the ending be rewritten in time?