Cameron Brodie, a veteran Glasgow detective, volunteers to be flown north to investigate Younger's death, but he has more than a murder enquiry on his agenda. There are only a few characters involved: Cameron Brodie, his daughter, the journalist, the whistle blower, the pathologist, the policeman and the hotel owner.

Younger was no walker making his discovery on a mountain-top near the Highland village of Kinlochleven unexplainable. Detective Inspector Cameron Brodie has a lot on his mind when asked to volunteer to travel to the West Highlands to investigate a body found in the ice, to establish whether a crime had been committed. Also I never ended up caring for any of the characters, which made the book's powerful moments less impactful. Cameron volunteered to investigate as he knew his estranged daughter Addie was living in Kinlochleven and he wanted to see her before it was too late. Warnings of climate catastrophe have been ignored, and vast areas of the planet are under water, or uninhabitably hot.His backstory slowly emerges as he reveals it to his daughter and it is extremely poignant and heartfelt.

The trilogy has won several French literature awards, including one of the world's largest adjudicated readers awards, the Prix Cezam. Hailstorms flew out of the darkness like sparks, deflecting off the windscreen… He could barely see the road ahead of him, hail blowing around and drifting like snow on the recently cleared tarmac. May paints a clear, poetic, and tragic picture of the wreck of a man he has become, but several things in his life are also about to change.Venturing out into a particularly violent storm, Brodie witnesses the extreme weather conditions for himself. Meanwhile, Brodie has kept to himself the fact that the woman who found the body, the wife of the local bobby, is his estranged daughter.

Set in the year 2051, after decades of politicians ignoring and denying the effects of climate change, the equatorial regions are now far too hot for human habitation, whole swathes of low-lying areas are totally submerged in the sea and, because of the destruction of the Gulf Stream, Scotland now suffers winters of stormy Arctic severity.After a slightly rocky introduction, Brodie finds that he gets on quite well with police pathologist Dr Sita Roy, and both are relieved when their eVTOL (electric helicopter) sets them down safely during an ice storm, in the blacked-out village of Kinlochleven. I don't remember Peter May previously setting any of his novels in the future, but correct me if I am wrong.