Ice House

by Minette Walters

Overview

When a rotting, unidentified corpse is discovered it marks the beginning of a nightmare murder investigation for the three women living there. But is it the beginning? Or does the body lying in the ice-house mean that the police can close an old file? Winner of the John Creasey Award in 1992.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447207863
Publisher:	Pan Publishing
Publication date:	03/28/2012
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Minette Walters is the author of many suspense novels and the winner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and the CWA John Creasey/New Blood Dagger Award, among others. Her work has been translated into twenty-six languages. She lives with her husband in Dorset, England.

Hometown:

Dorchester, Dorset, England

Date of Birth:

September 26, 1949

Place of Birth:

Bishop¿s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England

Education:

B.A. in French, Dunelm (Durham University), 1971

Website:

http://www.minettewalters.co.uk

What People are Saying About This

Sarah Caudwell

"An orginal first mystery, with some unusual insights into the friendship and loyalities between women."

Colin Dexter

"Startingly, compulsively readeable."

Editorial Reviews

Ten years ago, Phoebe Maybury's hateful husband David disappeared from Streech Grange after his wife caught him in bed with their traumatized daughter Jane. Now a naked, unidentifiable corpse has been discovered in the icehouse on the Grange, and Inspectors Walsh and McLoughlin have to decide whose it is, whether he was murdered, and who killed him. The cozy British setup is countered by an unremitting ferocity of tone, as Walsh—who planted the story years ago that Phoebe killed her husband—and McLoughlin slug it out with Phoebe and her aggressively lesbian companions, interior designer Diana Goode and magazine writer Anne Cattrell. For good measure, McLoughlin, stung by Anne's accurate taunts that he's fallen for her, also tangles with unblushing liar Maisie Thompson, whose husband has done a bunk (could that corpse be his?); with his long-unfaithful wife; with the village queer- bashers; and finally with Walsh himself. Unholy passions seethe inches beneath a proper surface: a brutal, literate debut—especially welcome to fans of Ruth Rendell.(I)

Kirkus Reviews

"Splendid...a rich, dark drama...an extraordinary debut."—St. Petersburg Times

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