The Ice House

A body in a locked room. A house full of secrets. And a nineteen-year-old woman who sees what the police cannot.

When Frederick Wyndham is found dead in the ice house of his family's Oxfordshire estate, stabbed and sealed inside a room with one door and no way out, the police are baffled. The case goes cold.

Nell Blackwood arrives at Braeburn Hall posing as a library assessor. Secretly guided by Roderick Fane, a reclusive detective confined to a wheelchair in his crumbling North Oxford study, she must unpick the household's tangled loyalties, buried affairs, and a fraud that has been hiding in plain sight.

But the closer Nell gets to the truth, the more dangerous the house becomes. Someone at Braeburn has killed twice and planned months ahead. And Nell is running out of time to prove it before she becomes the next loose end to tidy up.

The Ice House is the second book in the Fane & Blackwood Mysteries — a whodunnit series set in 1920s Oxford.