The Ice House - Softcover

Walters, Minette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330327917 ISBN 13: 9780330327916

Publisher: Pan Books, 2008

Synopsis

'It was evident, if there were no other entrance to the ice house, that the body had at some point traversed this thorny barrier . . . The big question was, how long ago? How long had that nightmare been there?'

The people of Streech village had never trusted the three women living up at the Grange – not since Phoebe Maybury's husband suddenly, inexplicably, vanished.

Ten years later a corpse is discovered in the grounds and Phoebe's nightmare begins. For once they have identified the body the police are determined to charge her with murder . . .

'The most impressive first novel in years' Daily Telegraph

'A seductive writer with an imagination that makes her dangerous to know' Sunday Express

'Terrific first novel with a high Rendellesque frisson count' The Times

About this title

Review:

"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"

Book Description:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pan Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0330327917
• ISBN 13: 9780330327916
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448