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The Frozen People

An Ali Dawson Mystery
By Elly Griffiths
Series: Ali Dawson
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SOME MURDERS CAN'T BE SOLVED IN JUST ONE LIFETIME. 'Smart, original and utterly masterful' Janice Hallett 'A pleasure from start to finish' Anthony Horowitz 'An exhilarating new crime series with a fabulous genre twist' Vaseem Khan 'A remarkable achievement from a crime fiction phenomenon' Jane Casey... Read More
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A brand new series from No 1 bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries. Some murders can't be solved in just one lifetime.

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SOME MURDERS CAN'T BE SOLVED IN JUST ONE LIFETIME.

'Smart, original and utterly masterful' Janice Hallett

'A pleasure from start to finish' Anthony Horowitz

'An exhilarating new crime series with a fabulous genre twist' Vaseem Khan

'A remarkable achievement from a crime fiction phenomenon' Jane Casey

'Vivid, suspenseful, fierce and funny - I was all-in from page one' Louise Candlish

'Inventive, surprising, endlessly entertaining' Gillian McAllister

'An audaciously compelling thriller, full of rare charm, zest and warmth' Nicci French

'A captivating, atmospheric mystery filled with wisdom, wit and compassion' Antonia Hodgson

A brand new series from No 1 bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries. If you're missing Ruth and Nelson, wait till you meet Ali and Cain.

Ali Dawson is a police officer working on crimes so old, the joke goes, that they are not only cold but frozen. What most people don't know is that the team travels back in time to complete their research—a process pioneered by the mysterious Italian physicist, Serafina Pelligrini.

So far the team has only ventured a few years back, but Ali's boss has a new assignment for her. He wants her to step back to 1850, the heart of the Victorian Age, to clear the name of Cain Templeton, the eccentric great-grandfather of Tory MP Isaac Templeton.

To prepare for the challenge ahead, Ali researches the Victorian era. She learns that Cain Templeton was part of a sinister group called The Collectors, the rumour being that you had to kill a woman to become a member. Duly prepared, she arrives in London in January 1850, at the peak of the so-called mini ice age, to start her journey in a house used by artists, with a dead woman at her feet.

Soon she finds herself in extreme danger. Even worse—she appears to be stuck, unable to make her way back to the present, to her life and to her son, Finn.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529433371

Publisher: Quercus Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 September 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Quercus Publishing

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 204.0mm

Weight: 263g

Pages: 368

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Crime & Thriller Elly Griffiths Fantasy Fiction General Fiction Sci-Fi & Fantasy Series: Ali Dawson

About the Author

Elly Griffiths is a multi-award-winning author and a No. 1 bestseller. She has written twenty-seven crime novels for adults; four for children, and a volume of short stories. Her books for adults include the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, the Brighton Mysteries and the Detective Harbinder Kaur series, as well as The Frozen People, the first book in the Ali Dawson Mysteries.

Elly's many accolades include the CWA Dagger in the Library, the Edgar Award, the Fingerprint Award for Crime Novel of the Year and the Theakston Old Peculier Outstanding Contribution Award, as well as being shortlisted multiple times for the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year Award.

Elly has two grown-up children and lives near Brighton with her archaeologist husband and their cat, Pip.

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