I was recommended the books that comprise Peter May’s Lewis Trilogy by a friend who is for the most part a non-reader.

He has a business purpose and a personal one as the individual who discovered the body is his estranged daughter, Addie. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. What follows is a story that take place in both 2051 and 2023 the changes in times were sometime jarring but once I got use to it I settled into the story.All of it occurring some years into our self-determined future (The author’s anticipation of the abuses made possible through AI, is both prescient and terrifying).

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I was confused and found that I wasn’t enjoying this tale much at all - I was already considering giving up on it. A twist on the tale of embittered veteran cop taking on shady forces and murder whilst dealing with the harsh elements of a future that has thrown Scotland into a much colder climate. Nearing retirement and recently in receipt of a devastating health diagnosis, he surveys the ruin which climate change has wreaked on the city since it hosted the COP 26 summit.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In this standalone novel, Cameron Brodie, a cop has just been handed a bad prognosis from his doctor. May is neither reassuring nor particularly apocalyptic, not bothering, thank god, with the word “apocalyptic’s” now widely accepted and worn out characteristics. We now get to meet police detective Cameron Brodie who has been sent to investigate the body on the mountain. Pathologist Dr Sita Roy joined Cameron on their journey, arriving in the middle of a ferocious ice storm.

There are advances in technology, developments in transportation, and changes in the environment; there are also expected and unexpected complications in all areas.In other hands, all the detailed scientific information in the novel – not to mention the underlying political message – could have become heavy-handed. Whilst parts of the world are suffering extreme heat, prompting the migration of millions of people from Africa and Asia to Europe, great swathes of Scotland are now under water due to rising sea levels caused by the melting of the Greenland ice sheets and the country now has the climate of northern Norway.