The Ice House - Softcover

Walters, Minette

3.83

10,332 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312427530 ISBN 13: 9780312427535

Publisher: Picador USA, 2007

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Winner of the CWA John Creasey/New Blood Dagger Award

It's been ten years since Phoebe Marbury's husband disappeared from their country manor, Streech Grange, when one afternoon her gardener discovers a decomposed body in the ice house. Now in her mid-thirties, Phoebe shares the manor with two unmarried friends, and the rumors in the village suggest they're up to something--witchcraft, lesbianism, child abuse. Chief Inspector Walsh is eager to find out for himself when he's called to investigate the body. What he discovers is a faceless, contorted corpse and three women who clearly know something they're not telling him. When his detective falls under the spell of Phoebe's friend, Anne, the investigation gets even murkier.

Minette Walters's first novel gives a raw, contemporary spin to a classic mystery convention.

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"Unholy passions seethe inches beneath a proper surface: a brutal, literate debut."--"Kirkus Reviews" (starred review) "Splendid . . . an extraordinary debut."--"St. Petersburg Times" "A stylish, nontraditional mystery in which ambiguity abounds."--"The New York Times Book Review" "Electrifying."--"Rocky Mountain News" "[A] zinger of a debut . . . Walters skillfully brings together the relationships between the women and the policemen into a complicated but believable puzzle, which she solves with panache."--"Publishers Weekly"

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Winner of the CWA John Creasey Award for Best First Novel of the Year – and the start of Minette Walter's long list of bestsellers

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