The Ice House: Minette Walters Macmillan

Minette Walters is a bestselling crime writer. She has won the CWA John Creasey Award for best first crime novel, the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best crime novel published in America and two CWA Gold Daggers for Fiction. Minette lives in Dorset with her husband.

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.

'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