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    The Frost Fair
    The Frost Fair
    The Frost Fair
    Audiobook10 hours

    The Frost Fair

    Written by Edward Marston

    Narrated by Glen McCready

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    December 1669. During one of the coldest winters in living memory, the Thames freezes over and a frost fair is held on the thick ice. Architect Christopher Redmayne and puritanical constable Jonathan Bale are both visiting the fair when one of Bale's sons gets into trouble on the ice. They rescue the boy but in the process make a grim discovery - a frozen corpse...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateNov 24, 2017
    ISBN9781528800617
    The Frost Fair
    Author

    Edward Marston

    Edward Marston has written well over a hundred books, including some non-fiction. He is best known for his hugely successful Railway Detective series and he also writes the Bow Street Rivals series featuring twin detectives set during the Regency; the Home Front Detective novels set during the First World War; and the Ocean Liner mysteries.

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      The author is skilled at description and the mystery is a puzzling one, but it drags with too many side-facets. We have relationships! And architecture! And a strong female character! And rogues! And the Great Fire! And social issues! And! And! And! It just ends up feeling like the author isn't much interested in the mystery as much as he's using it to share tidbits of things he finds interesting. The mystery unraveled itself, more or less, and more space was given to how awful Newgate Prison was than to actual detection. For all the time spent with them, and as much as one feels they *should* be interesting, the characters seemed like stock characters: the Good Brother, the Naughty Brother, the Loyal Conflicted Friend, the Overbearing Father, the Freespirited Woman Who Doesn't Need a Man, the Upper Crust Sister. Good people are only good and right and know everything, the bad people are only bad with no redeeming qualities.