The Frozen People - by Elly Griffiths (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

"Fresh and exciting, with both humor and thrills, Griffiths' first book in her new series knocks it out of the park!"--Shari Lapena

Cold cases are a lot easier to solve when you can travel back in time to find new evidence. Unless, that is, you get stuck in the nineteenth century...

Ali Dawson and her cold case team investigate crimes so old, they're frozen--or so their inside joke goes. Ali's work seems like a safe desk job, but what her friends--and even her beloved son--don't know is that her team has a secret: they can travel back in time to look for evidence.

So far, Ali has only made short trips to the recent past, so she's surprised when she's asked to investigate a murder in 1850. The killing has been pinned on an aristocratic patron of the arts and antiquities, and member of a sinister group called The Collectors. She arrives in the Victorian era during a mini ice age to find another dead woman at her feet and far too many unanswered questions.

But when her son is arrested, Ali attempts to return home only to find herself trapped in 1850. In a race through and against time, can Ali prove her son's innocence and discover the link between the nineteenth-century Collectors and a twenty-first century killing in time to prevent another death?

Review Quotes

Praise for The Frozen People

"A new book by Elly Griffiths is always a cause of delight, and this series promises to broaden our horizons. Ali Dawson will capture readers' hearts."
--Mick Herron, award-winning author of Slow Horses

"Fresh and exciting, with both humor and thrills, Griffiths' first book in her new series knocks it out of the park!"
--Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author of What Have You Done?

"Think you know time-travel? Think again! Far more than just a detective story, this is a tale about time itself, with delicious connections that thread back and forth between 1850 and 2023. Elly Griffiths has weaved a corker of a mystery that gripped me from page one. Smart, original, and utterly masterful."
--Janice Hallett, international bestselling author of The Appeal

"A pleasure from finish to start."
--Anthony Horowitz, New York Times bestselling author of the Hawthorne and Horowitz series

"Elly Griffiths is back with a cast of instantly memorable characters, and a dazzlingly inventive new conundrum."
--Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of One Perfect Couple

"A dark, thought-provoking, edge-of-your-seat crime thriller that will keep you flying through the pages. Present and past collide in this ingenious, time-twisting exploration of justice and a mother's race to save her son."
--Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author of The Overnight Guest

"Inventive, surprising, endlessly entertaining while being part murder mystery, part historical thriller, and part speculative fiction. Readers of any genre will enjoy sinking into its murky underworld with a protagonist they will love."
--Gillian McAllister, New York Times bestselling author of Wrong Place Wrong Time

"A brilliant concept executed to perfection by a writer at the absolute top of her game."
--Erin Kelly, international bestselling author of The Skeleton Key

"The Frozen People is wickedly entertaining, clever, and truly spooky. I loved every page."
--Liz Nugent, international bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond

About the Author

Elly Griffiths is the author of the Ruth Galloway and Brighton mystery series, as well as the standalone novels The Stranger Diaries, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel; The Postscript Murders; and Bleeding Heart Yard. She is the recipient of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award and the Mary Higgins Clark Award. She lives in Brighton, England.