Minette Walters: The Ice House (UK 2010)

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"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

Minette Walters: The Ice House. Pan eBook, ISBN: 9780330528719 (December, 2010), 866 KB (ca. 436 p.), £5.99.

Minette Walters: The Ice House (UK 2008)

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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

Minette Walters: The Ice House. Pan, ISBN: 9780330327916 (August, 2008), 413 p., £6.99.

Minette Walters: The Ice House (USA 2007)

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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: The Ice House. Picador, ISBN: 0312427530 (October, 2007), 320 p., $14.00.

Minette Walters: The Ice House (UK 1997)

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"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...

Minette Walters: The Ice House. Pan, ISBN: 0330353349 (March, 1997), 430 p., £5.99.

Minette Walters: The Ice House (USA 1993)

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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: The Ice House. St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 0312951426 (September, 1993), 306 p., $6.50.

Minette Walters: The Ice House (UK 1993)

From the Publisher:
"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

Minette Walters: The Ice House. Pan, ISBN: 0330327917 (July, 1993), 301 p., £4.99.

Minette Walters: The Ice House (USA 1992)

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With this stunning debut -- a marvelous marriage of classic convention and contemporary sophistication -- Minette Walters sets a new standard of excellence for the mystery novel.

The three women living in seclusion at an elegant Hampshire country house have long been fodder for village gossip... even whispers of a witches' coven. So when a faceless corpse of uncertain vintage is found in the Streech Grange ice house, Chief Inspector Walsh can't wait to make a case of it.

Lady of the manor Phoebe Maybury, still haunted by Walsh's relentless investigation of her husband's strange disappearance ten years ago, is calm. She and her two housemates -- sensitive, charming artist Diana Goode and pretty, earthy Anne Cattrell -- seem as puzzled as the police. But do they have something to hide?

While Walsh strives to nail Phoebe for murder, sexy young Detective Sergeant McLoughlin turns his attention to the exasperating and magnetic Anne. Soon his inquiry and his impulses will draw him into a tangled thicket of love, loyalty, and deadly intrigue.

Minette Walters: The Ice House. A Novel of Mystery. St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 0312078013 (July, 1992), 240 p., $18.95.

Minette Walters: The Ice House (UK 1992)

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When a rotting, unidentifiable corpse is discovered in the grounds of Streech Grange, it marks the beginning of a nightmare murder investigation for the three women living there. But is it the beginning? Or does the body lying in the ice house mean that the police can finally close their file on David Maybury, who vanished from Streech Grange ten years earlier? Inspector Walsh, the investigating officer in charge of the original inquiry, is a man obsessed with uncovering the truth.

His suspicions centre - as they did at the time of her husband's diasappearance - on Phoebe Maybury. She inhabits a strange, isolated world where her only close companions are Anne and Diana, the two women friends who live with her. For many in the local community Streech Grange is as place of evil, and Phoebe herself has become the focus of the villager's dislike and fear. They believe that she murdered not only her husband but her parents as well. And now that some hard evidence has been uncovered the pressure to convict her becomes intense.

As Walsh and his assistant, Detective Segeant McLoughlin, begin to probe into private lives and secret passions they assume that a conviction for murder can only be a formality. But sometimes obsessions can obstruct the truth...

Minette Walters: The Ice House. Macmillan, ISBN: 0333570952 (June, 1992), 240 p., £14.99.