The Frost Fair Murders: The Samuel Pepys Mysteries Book 5

When the Thames freezes over, Death will stalk the ice.

Londoners, still reeling from the Great Fire, gleefully spill onto the frozen river as the Frost Fair opens on St Stephen's Day, 1666. The fair promises delights aplenty - aromatic hot tipples, glittering trinket stalls, skaters from Holland, trips on the drum boat, barbers, shoemakers and taverns... But behind the revelry, murder lurks.

When a body is found entombed in the ice, Samuel Pepys calls upon his loyal inquisitors, Abigail Harc...