MURDER MOST COLD a gripping and terribly twisty murder mystery

<p><strong>DISCOVER THE FIENDISHLY TWISTY UTTERLY ADDICTIVE CRIME FICTION OF VICTORIA DOWD.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>**FROM THE WINNER OF THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 AND SHORTLISTEE OF THE CWA DAGGER AWARD 2023**</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>A winter wedding.</strong></p><p><strong>A mysterious disappearance.</strong></p><p><strong>A body under the ice.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Handsome Spear proposes marriage and Ursula Smart suddenly has a glimpse of the sort of happy life she had never imagined for herself. Beginning with a small winter wedding on the edge of a secluded frozen lake away from it all.</p><p><br></p><p>But trouble is never far from the Smart women especially when the atmosphere is already so frosty.</p><p><br></p><p>Tensions start rising as soon as they arrive and it's not just Ursula's mother Pandora getting cabin fever.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Poisoning. Stabbing. A mysterious disappearance. Who's targeting the wedding party?</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Then on a midnight jaunt Ursula sees a face trapped under the ice eyes staring in frozen horror. And her happy future begins to fall apart.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Weddings should be joyous occasions. But there's a murderer at this one.</strong></p>