Frozen Ground

Yorkshire Dales Mystery #6

by Susan Parry

When Wildlife Officer Harry Clark is seconded to Cumbria Constabulary to assist in an investigation of sheep rustling, he is unaware that a young police officer from Kirkby Stephen has disappeared in a blizzard. Soon he is joining the search team on snow-covered Wild Boar Fell.

Sergeant Nina Featherstone jumps at the opportunity of working undercover to expose the trade in illegal meat but the forensic evidence provided to Dr Mills Sanderson is obtained in an unorthodox fashion and threatens to jeopardise the case.

295 pages, Paperback

First published August 31, 2013

About the author

I am the author of a series of crime novels set in the Yorkshire Dales, featuring Mills Sanderson a young woman trained as a forensic archaeologist. I fell in love with the Dales thirty years ago and enjoy researching the villages and fells for the books. Sense of place is an important aspect of my work. I am a university professor with experience of forensic analysis that informs my writing and I take my research for the books very seriously. There are currently eleven books in the series .

Reviews

[Helen Birkbeck · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really like this series and this one is a good addition, with interesting plot developments and a focus on Harry as the main character instead of Madeline/Millicent/Millie/Mills (!). The descriptions of the Dales scenery in winter are very evocative, especially in a heatwave! I find Mills' flittering from man to man a bit tiresome, but I'm an old lady who's been married for decades! And as a mother of a daughter and twin boys I find Nina's energy and ability to do a difficult job rather amusing. (I think the author has twins, but perhaps she was a supermum...) Also, there are fewer typos in this, though they still haven't grasped the genitive plural...