Murder on a Frosty Night

 Murder on a Frosty Night

Reviewed By  Janet Mawdesley       December 14, 2025

 

Author  Verity Bright

Distributor:      Amazon
ISBN:                 978-1805500193
Publisher:         Bookouture
Release Date:   8 December 2025  

   Website:   https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Frosty-Night-addictive-historical/dp/1805500198

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Murder on a Frosty Night is the latest cosy murder from Verity Bright and once again presents a very tough case to solve. As the snow falls and the temperature plummets, Ellie, Hugh and Clifford are at what appears to be a complete dead end, when a simple clue presents itself resulting in a case conclusion with an astonishing ending.

It’s almost Christmas again and Lady Eleanor Swift, her husband Hugh and the stalwart Clifford are getting ready to celebrate their first Christmas together at Henley Hall.

Ellie is doing her best to get all her gits wrapped, with help from Tompkins and Gladstone, in time to attend a function at Little Buckford, but somehow it is not coming together as it should. Hugh is in his office trying to finish work required in his new position as a consultant to Scotland Yard.

Even though it is the festive season the lack of work for the new Byron Detective Agency is causing some worry and when a  telegram arrives with the promise of Three Hundred pounds as a retainer and a further six hundred to follow, they make the hasty decision to travel to Waketon Court, Yorelow in Westhamshire, arriving as directed, before the final stroke of Midnight.

Once there they being to seriously wonder just what it is they have undertaken as they find the body of the client draped over a grave, the residents of the Village secretive, holding grudges that go back many years and the staff at Waketon Court behaving in a very unusual manner.

Time is a crucial factor in attempting to discover what has been going on and exactly what was the murder weapon used to kill not once but several times with a ruthlessness that leads them to believe there is far more to what has occurred in Yorelow than first meets the eye.

Combining forces with the local Constabulary, and with the arrival of the ladies from Henley Hall, it seems they may have a wonderful Christmas after all, if only they can find the killer before they kill again.

Gripping and most intriguing Murder on a Frosty Night is one case that will keep you guessing until the last snowflake falls on Yorelow, Westhamshire.

Crime, Fiction, Historical, Mystery