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The Ice House - Minette Walters
The Ice House
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Winner of the CWA John Creasey/New Blood Dagger Award It's been ten years since Phoebe Marbury's husband disappeared from their country manor, Streech Grange, when one afternoon her gardener discovers a decomposed body in the ice house. Now in her mid-thirties, Phoebe shares the manor with two... show more
Winner of the CWA John Creasey/New Blood Dagger Award It's been ten years since Phoebe Marbury's husband disappeared from their country manor, Streech Grange, when one afternoon her gardener discovers a decomposed body in the ice house. Now in her mid-thirties, Phoebe shares the manor with two unmarried friends, and the rumors in the village suggest they're up to something--witchcraft, lesbianism, child abuse. Chief Inspector Walsh is eager to find out for himself when he's called to investigate the body. What he discovers is a faceless, contorted corpse and three women who have no interest in helping out the police, and clearly know something they're not telling him. Minette Walters's first novel gives a raw, contemporary spin to a classic mystery convention, and the result is "splendid . . . an extraordinary debut" (St. Petersburg Times).
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780312427535 (0312427530)
Publisher: Picador
Edition language: English
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Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
4.0 The Ice House by Minette Walters
bookshelves: britain-england, mystery-thriller, published-1992, fraudio, glbt Read in October, 2009 A nitty-gritty murder story as a first novel and excellent it is too. Kept me guessing right up to the end, although it did get a little 'busy' at times. The three women living in seclusion at a...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
4.0
A nitty-gritty murder story as a first novel and excellent it is too. Kept me guessing right up to the end, although it did get a little 'busy' at times.
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it
lots of twists, well done[return:]
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