by Craig Robertson
BOOK DESCRIPTION
A murder investigation frozen in time is beginning to melt.November 1993. Scotland is in the grip of an ice-cold winter and the Lake of Menteith is frozen over. A young man and woman walk across the ice to the historic island of Inchmahome which lies in the middle of the lake. Only the man returns.
In the spring, as staff prepare the abbey ruins for summer visitors, they discover the body of a girl, her skull violently crushed.
Present day. Retired detective Alan Narey is still haunted by the unsolved crime. Desperate to relieve her ailing father's conscience, DS Rachel Narey risks her job and reputation by returning to the Lake of Menteith and unofficially reopening the cold case.
With the help of police photographer Tony Winter, Rachel prepares a
dangerous gambit to uncover the killer's identity - little knowing who that
truly is. Despite the freezing temperatures the ice cold case begins to thaw,
and with it a tide of secrets long frozen in time are suddenly and shockingly
unleashed.
AUTHOR BIO
A former journalist, Craig Robertson had a 20-year career with a Scottish Sunday newspaper before becoming a full-time author. He interviewed three Prime Ministers, reported on major stories including 9/11, Dunblane, the Omagh bombing and the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. He was pilloried on breakfast television, beat Oprah Winfrey to a major scoop, spent time on Death Row in the USA and dispensed polio drops in the backstreets of India.
His gritty crime novels are set on the mean streets of contemporary Glasgow. His first novel, Random, was shortlisted for the 2010 CWA New Blood Dagger, longlisted for the 2011 Crime Novel of the Year and was a Sunday Times bestseller. He is also the author of a series of novels featuring crime scene photographer Tony Winter and Detective Sergeant Rachel Narey; Snapshot, Cold Grave and Witness the Dead.
REVIEWS
'Hot on the blood-soaked heels of Robertson’s previous hits, Random and Snapshot, Cold Grave takes a spine-tingling setting and an original storyline and adds something more. In Scottish crime fiction, we have an abundance of maverick sleuths and jaded old hands, but there’s a gap in the market for a hot new crime-fighting couple. Narey and Winter have just claimed it.'
--Shari Low, Daily Record
'The delight about Robertson is the way he slots in so neatly between the more visceral and blackly funny Stuart MacBride and the generally safer confines of Rankin's Rebus, so what you get is a good solid police procedural underpinned by an adept feeling for the realm of human relationships and the darker recesses of the human psyche.'
--Eurocrime
'The cold climate of Scandinavian crime fiction is invoked by the publishers of Craig Robertson's highly persuasive novel, and not without justice. It is November 1993, and Scotland is suffering under an ice-cold winter, with the Lake of Menteith froze over. A young man and woman are able to walk to the historic island of Inchmahome located in the middle of the lake. But only the man returns. Spring arrives, and as the Abbey prepares for summer visitors, the body of a girl is discovered with her skull crushed. In the present day, retired detective Alan Narey finds he cannot forget the unsolved crime…'
-- Barry Forshaw, Good Book Crime Guide
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