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Synopsis. Mrs Phoebe Maybury, a widow in her late thirties, lives in Streech Grange with her two companions Diana and Anne. One day her servant Fred finds a rotting corpse in their ice house, a storage room inside a hillock that hasn't been used for years. DCI George Walsh thinks it may be the corpse of Phoebe's husband David, who went missing ...
- Minette Walters
- 1992
With The Ice House Walters manages to update the old-school Christie-style manor-house mystery with modern characters and settings. (Regular references to lesbianism, alcoholism, birth control, etc. help remind you that you're not in one of those old 30's novels, but it's easy to forget with Walters' breezy yet classic style.)
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Mar 1, 2012 · The Ice House by Minette Walters tells the story of three women, Phoebe, Anne and Diana who live together in a mansion called Streech Grange. Their gardener Fred discovers a body in the ice house on the grounds. The police try to unravel the mystery and determine who the body is and who murdered him.
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- Minette Walters
Oct 2, 2007 · The Ice House was the first Walters book I read, and was the reason I went on to read the rest of her works so far. The unravelling of mysterious deaths and disappearances in the present and in the past, the development of the very real characters, the pace, the setting, the plot - were all done with a deft hand by Minette Walters.
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- Minette Walters
The Ice House. Minette Walters. Pan Macmillan, Dec 3, 2010 - Fiction - 416 pages. Winner of the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey Award for best first novel, The Ice House is the mystery thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. It was evident, if there were no other entrance to the ice house, that the body had at some point traversed ...
The author, Minette Walters, for whom this was her first published mystery, is clearly familiar enough with the genre to push at its limits and twist it a little bit at the ends. The story is engaging and dark, filled with the bleak neglect of details common in characters found in this situation. There are hints because there are secrets.
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Aug 1, 2008 · It's mostly a good read and some aspects - such as whose actually IS the body found in the ice house - work well and keep you engaged until the end. I also liked the very English setting - the book falls readily into the great British tradition of adventure and mystery writing going back to Stevenson and Buchan.
- Minette Walters
