A review by melissa_who_reads
The Ice House by Minette Walters

4.0

When a body is found in an old unused ice house on an English estate, the police are called back in, and the effects of their last investigation at the estate are remembered: an investigation into a possible murder, though no body was ever found. Very good mystery, good plotting, characters, and writing. Though it contains elements that I usually shrink from -- child abuse in particular -- it was so well-written and integral to the story that I was enthralled rather than repulsed. Possibly easier as the abuse was in the past, though the after-effects was very much part of the present, and reverberating throughout the story. Nicely layered. Murder and its after-effects, a little embezzlement as a side plot, and the viciousness of a small village avenging an imagined wrong, all reveal more details of the life of the women living at the estate.