For fans of Agatha Christie and Midsomer Murders, Reckoning in Ice is a crime-lovers must-read.
When accountant Richard Garston is summoned to Scotland to meet with the chairman of a multi-million pound company that he is auditing, he has no idea of the danger that lies ahead.
Paul Villeneuve, the scientist and chairman at International Metals, believes somebody is out to steal his latest discovery. And he wants Richard to prove it.
Enlisting the help of Villeneuve's beautiful daughter, Paula, they set sail for Greenland to follow up on a lead. But with danger lurking round every corner, Richard must keep all of his wits about him and track down the culprit, before the culprit tracks him down.
Brimming with greed, murder and a hair-raising showdown, J.R.L. Anderson's, Reckoning in Ice, is not to be missed. JRL Anderson was an author of fourteen mystery stories and numerous works of non-fiction. He was a journalist at the Guardian for many years, before retiring to pursue his career as an author. He had a life-long interest in sailing and adventure, which results in many of his novels (as his original author biography from the 1970s puts it) ending 'with an exciting sea chase in a small boat'. Corruption in the Scottish Highlands to murder in the Arctic: young Richard Garston faces the toughest of missions A classic English murder mystery from a master of 1970s crime Perfect for readers of Agatha Christie and Ian Samson (whose The Norfolk Mystery
was a recent selection for the Waterstones Book Club) Zaffre will be republishing Anderson's entire backlist of 14 novels
