I've been a big fan of Elly Griffiths since reading my first Ruth Galloway story. Since then I've devoured all of the volumes in that series as well as Griffiths other series. I have come to expect great character development, suspense, quirky characters and interesting plot lines and The Frozen People did not disappoint. Griffiths does a great job of setting up for a series that will be interesting for it's time travel component as well as for the interesting story lines. Can's wait to read the next one. Would highly recommend!

I'm a sucker for time travel stories and this one was so much fun! I loved our main character and the author did a great job at incorporating so many elements into this story, including sci-fi, mystery, humor. and a little bit of romance.

I have been reading Elly Griffiths novels for a long time. The Ruth Galloway series was my favorite, but it appears The Frozen People will prove to be another favorite series. The Frozen People is book one on a time-travel mystery series that takes protagonist Ali Dawson on a journey back to the 1850s to solve a murder. Griffiths does middle-age, unconventional heroines extremely well. Women of a certain age are not too old to solve crimes or to find romance. The characters in The Frozen People are just terrific. They have depth and the kinds of lives that command the reader's attention. The Victorian London scenes are well researched and are detailed enough to make me thankful not to have lived then. The bitter cold, even inside the rooming house where Ali lives, is enough to make me want to return to my own time. There are a number of terrific twists, involving Ali's son Finn, who is the focus of another bit of crime solving.

I definitely do recommend The Frozen People. I totally enjoyed this novel, and I suspect all readers, not just Griffiths' fans will also enjoy it. Thank you to Penguin Group Viking and NetGalley for providing me with this ARC to read and review. The above are my honest comments,

Thanks to Penguin and NetGalley for this digital ARC.

This was a stunner of a series debut! As a long time fan of Elly Griffiths, I had high expectations for this - and boy did she deliver. Ali Dawson is part of a cold case team investigating unsolved crimes from the past... by using time travel. When landing in 1850, she is tasked with finding out more about a group called The Collectors and shed light on some unsolved murders. But why has Ali really been sent to the past, and when she gets stuck, will she make it home?

Can't wait for book two!

Anything in Victorian London will always get me! This time traveling mystery was a lot of fun to read - the only downside is waiting for the next in the series!

This is a new series from Elly Griffiths and quite different from her others. In this one Ali Dawson, a middle-aged police detective, is a member of a cold case team. But this unit works with a scientist who has discovered time travel, and the team members go back in time to solve the cases, usually just a few years back. But this time Ali goes back to 1850 to solve a murder and encounters a wonderful array of characters and experiences. Set in both the present and the past this is a light-hearted read, well-written as all Griffiths works are. Recommended.