The Frost Murders
E.M. Winterbourne
The Frost Murders: A Victorian Christmas Mystery
"The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them."
London, 1895. The city is blanketed in snow, but beneath the festive white lies a crimson trail of vengeance.
On the morning of December 23rd, the first body arrives on the morning frost. Lady Catherine Pemberton, a wealthy widow and prominent philanthropist, is found strangled in her Belgravia drawing room. Above her head hangs a grotesque gift: a red velvet stocking overflowing with her own blood-soaked jewellery and a single golden pear ornament.
For consulting detective Octavius Frost, a man haunted by a childhood promise to never remain silent in the face of injustice, the symbolism is chillingly clear. A killer is performing a masterpiece—a "Twelve Days of Christmas" carol written in blood.
Frost must partner with the formidable Dr. Helena Ashford, a pioneering female physician and forensic specialist, to decode a pattern of "accidental" deaths that have been occurring across London for over a week. As they unearth a dark conspiracy involving the Society of St. Nicholas, Frost is forced to confront the corruption in his own aristocratic family’s past and a tragedy twenty years in the making.
The Frost Murders is the first investigation in the gripping Octavius Frost Mysteries, a planned 10-book series combining meticulous historical research with the atmospheric tension of classic Victorian crime fiction.
