The Ice House Av Minette Walters

<p><b>Winner of the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey Award for best first novel, <i>The Ice House</i> is the mystery thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. </b><br><i><br>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?</i><br><br> 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.<br><br> 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 . . .</p>