The Frozen People by Elly Griffits

Series: Ali Dawson (#1)

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

Published: January 1, 2025 by Quercus

Mystery Fiction /library

Somehow I managed to miss that this one actually contains timetravel. Maybe I though oh that is a very cold case, but nope, time travel.

Ali works with cold cases, but her department is also really secret because someone invented a way to travel in time. But it is not like hey lets all travel in time. No it is not that advanced. It is dangerous, and not that safe. And when Ali goes back into 1850 she misses her window and she is stuck.

Ali is a 3 time divorcee with a kid. She was down to earth and just got the job done. The case she is on is a politician wanting to clear an ancestors name. Which leads to her getting stuck in the past, and things heating up in bad ways back home.

We get the now and the then when she is trying to make it back then and trying to figure out if that ancestor did those bad things or not...

And back home, well just say it gets intense and I wanted to know what was going to happen. There is murder, secrets and I mean is Ali gonna get home or not?!

It was a good one.

Cold cases are a lot easier to solve when you can travel back in time to find new evidence—unless, that is, you get stuck in the nineteenth century.

Ali Dawson and her cold case team investigate crimes so old they’re frozen—or so their inside joke goes. Ali’s work seems like a safe desk job, but what her friends—and even her beloved son—don’t know is that her team has a secret: They can travel back in time to look for evidence.

So far Ali has made trips only to the recent past, so she’s surprised when she’s asked to investigate a murder that took place in 1850. The killing has been pinned on an aristocratic patron of the arts and antiquities, a member of a sinister group called "The Collectors." She arrives in the Victorian era during a mini ice age to find another dead woman at her feet and far too many unanswered questions. But when her son is arrested, Ali attempts to return home only to find herself trapped in 1850.