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.

Elly Griffiths is one of the best at her craft. Reminiscent of Jodi Taylor this was a smash hit. Loved the characters, the plot, a series!, can’t wait for the next one. Glad to have found a new character to follow Ruth.

WOW! When I was first selected to read this book through Net Galley I was so excited and then I realized it had a time travel element (spoiler) and at first I was disappointed but I was so wrong. Griffiths has done it again. I was sad when the Galloway series reached its end but I think we have a new main character in Alison Dawson to take us into the future. I do not want to give anyway anymore details but a team of "cold case" police officers actually time travel to solve cases and this idea is woven seamlessly into a the mystery at hand. I was completely hooked and cannot wait for the next book.

Ali Dawson, a career police officer, joins a new law enforcement division that specializes in solving cold cases. She is shocked to realize that in order to do that, the officers in this secretive division must travel in time! The author makes all this (set in the present day) seem natural and believable. Ali has made a few time travel trips, but only back a few years, and never alone. When a prominent government official specifically requests for her to go back to 1850s Victorian London to clear the name of his ancestor, who was accused of killing three women, she prepares extensively, and goes. She's successful, until it is time to return, where there is a glitch. In the meantime, her son, who works as an advisor to the official, is accused of murder, and only Ali can provide the evidence needed to clear his name. But first she has to get back to the present. Great mystery, great story!

This is my first Elly Griffiths book, and I really liked it. I'm a sucker for time travel, but it can often be poorly written or overly complicated. This book is neither! It is fun, an easy to understand time travel premise that let me focus on the characters and the mystery. Ali is a London police officer attached to a unit solving cold cases by using time travel to go back and observe the past. While traveling to 1850 investigating a murder there, her son is charged with murder in the present. As the story unravels, clues, and people, from the past pop up. A satisfying conclusion, interesting characters, fun premise and overall an easy, fast paced read.

Thank you, NetGalley and Viking Penguin, for the ARC of this novel.

Hooray! A new story from Elly Griffiths and this one takes us on a new type of adventure. The Frozen People has all the things I've come to love about Elly Griffiths stories - grounded in family (biological and chosen) and relatable people, dilemmas dealing with those same relationships, twists and turns that keep you guessing to the end. But it also has a fantastical twist that marries the mystery with history in a new way for Griffiths with time travel. I actually requested the title without really knowing that was an element of the story and was absolutely delighted.

Ali is part of a very secret cold case detective team that only a tiny number of 'higher-ups' in the UK government even know it exists and what they actually do. Even Ali's son, Finn, isn't aware of exactly what his mother does - that is until she gets stuck in 1850 London and no one is quite sure how to get her back. Time travel is still relatively new and all the kinks have yet to be worked out. Ali bides her time by trying to focus on the case, not realizing that back in her current time, another murder has happened and the two are related - literally.

For history lovers and detective story readers alike, this is a fun, new path for one of our favorite writers.

I'll read anything Elly Griffiths writes. The Frozen People is a bit of a departure for Griffiths, as it is a little science fictiony. The plot revolves around a somewhat secret department of police officers and a scientist that tackles cold cases in a new way--by using time travel! Ali, our FMC, has been personally requested by a high-powered government official to go back in time to investigate his great great great grandfather, who was rumored to have been a member of a kind of cult and to have murdered several women. The problem is, Ali will have to go back to 1850, way farther back than any of them have traveled before, so no one really knows how well it will work, or what will happen to Ali.

In addition to the cold case, something happens in the present that Ali and the team must investigate as well, and this one hits close to home.

Griffiths has a way of making you care about her characters in a short period of time. It's easy to get invested in her stories, and this one is no exception. I also enjoyed the descriptions of life in England in 1850.

My only quibble with this book is that it seemed to finish too quickly. Some things are left a bit open-ended, as expected in a new series opener.

Thanks to NetGalley, Penguin Group/Viking Penguin, and Elly Griffiths for the eARC in exchange for an honest review.