A Killing Frost

England, winter 1715. The River Thames has frozen solid, and a Frost Fair rises on the ice, drawing all of London out into the cold.

When Sir Walter Tatham is found frozen to death at the fair, dressed in expensive coronation robes, Lord Hawkhurst asks Hester Kean to look quietly into the baronet's affairs, without explaining why. Hester agrees, only to find herself navigating secrets someone would rather stayed buried.

Gideon has troubles of his own. Still outlawed as the highwayman Blue Satan, he is deep in a dangerous scheme to help a condemned Jacobite rebel escape Newgate before the gallows claim him, work that could cost Gideon his own life if it fails.

As the ice on the Thames holds fast, Hester and Gideon must each find their own way through a case built on secrets, before the cold claims another victim.

A Killing Frost is Book 4 in Patricia Wynn's Blue Satan Mystery Series, continuing the Georgian historical mystery of Gideon, Hester, and the outlaw known as Blue Satan.