The Ice House by Minette Walters
Fiction

Three women living together in an old country house provide ample fodder for gossip to the townsfolk, and even more so when a faceless dead body is found in the old ice house on the property. Could it possibly be the cad of a husband of the lady of the manor, who disappeared 10 years prior, as the Chief Inspector thinks? And was it murder or not? And why do all three women seem to be hiding something? Readers who enjoy the literary style of P.D. James and the psychological elements of some Ruth Rendell novels might want to give Minette Walters' books a try.