Waterstones of King’s Lynn hosting writer Elly Griffiths at special event

Waterstones is hosting writer Elly Griffiths at a special event in Lynn next month.

Elly will be at The Dukes Head ballroom on Wednesday, February 12 to from 11am to noon to celebrate her upcoming new novel, The Frozen People.

This unputdownable first instalment in a new series has a time-travelling spin, taking cold case investigator Ali Dawson to the freezing streets of London in January 1850.

Elly will be on stage in conversation about all things Ruth Galloway, Harbinder Kaur, Stephens and Mephisto, and welcoming Ali Dawson.

Audience members will be able to ask questions to one of Crime’s most beloved writers.

To book your place visit www.waterstones.com/events/elly-griffiths-in-conversation/kings-lynn - admission is £10 or £27 for entry and a copy of the book. Tickets can also be bought at the Norfolk Street shop - for further details call 01553 660111.

The star of Elly’s new book is Ali Dawson, who is as colourful as her bright red hair. She is warm, funny, forthright - and mother to a grown son, Finn. Ali works on cold cases, crimes so old, the joke goes, they are almost frozen.

What most people don't know is that Ali and the team travel back in time to complete their research - a process pioneered by the mysterious Italian physicist, Serafina Pelligrini.

So far the team has only ventured a few years or decades back but Ali's boss has a new assignment for her. He wants her to step back to 1850, the heart of the Victorian Age, to clear the name of Cain Templeton, the eccentric great-grandfather of Tory MP Isaac Templeton, her son's boss.

To ready herself for the challenge ahead, Ali researches the Victorian era. She learns that Cain Templeton was part of a sinister group called The Collectors, the rumour being that you had to kill a woman to become a member. Duly prepared, she arrives in London in January 1850 in the middle of a freezing winter. She is directed to a house inhabited by artists, and is greeted by a dead woman at her feet.

Soon she finds herself in extreme danger. Even worse - she appears to be stuck, unable to make her way back to the present, to the life she loves and to her son, Finn.

The Frozen People is a lavish, cleverly plotted mystery with a cast of new characters to get to know and love.

Waterstones of Lynn Top Ten chart

1. The Frozen People (preorder) – Elly Griffiths
2. Stokesby Grave – David Blake
3. The Anxious Generation – Jonathan Haidt
4. Butter – Asako Yuzuki
5. Voyage of the Damned – Frances White
6. The Book of Gifts – Lucy Dunbar
7. The Wizard of the Kremlin – Giuliano Da Empoli
8. The List of Suspicious Things – Jennie Godfrey
9. Poison Garden – LJ Ross
10. Seventh Son – Sebastian Faulks