The Frost Fair Murders

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When the Thames freezes over Death shall stalk the ice.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>St Stephen's Day 1666. Londoners still scarred by fire flock to the Frost Fair - a carnival on ice with puppet shows and skating taverns and gambling booths. But beneath the revels something darker lurks.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A body is found frozen into the river. Samuel Pepys sends his inquisitors Abigail Harcourt and Jacob Standish to investigate. Their suspects are many: grizzled watermen a fiery Italian puppeteer the dead-eyed owner of the Lottery Booth.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As Abby faces a ghost from her past and Jacob realises the killer's game is more twisted than he feared the ice itself begins to crack.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The clock is ticking a storm is coming.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And before the thaw Death shall claim another prize.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Frost Fair Murders continues the Samuel Pepys Mysteries historical mysteries steeped in period colour and brimming with fiendish whodunits. Step back into Pepys's London - once you do you won't want to leave.</span></p><p></p><p></p>