Martin Edwards

London, 1930. Scotland Yard is baffled by a sequence of ghastly murders unfolding across the city and at the centre of it all is mysterious heiress Rachel Savernake. Jacob Flint, a tenacious young journalist, is drawn into Rachel's glittering world of wealth and power. But as the body count continues to rise, Jacob soon becomes part of a dangerous game that could leave him dancing at the end of the hangman's rope if he pursues the truth.

Six people with links to the world of crime writing have been invited to play a game this Christmas by the mysterious Midwinter Trust.

Solve the murder of a fictional crime writer in a remote village in north Yorkshire and win a life-changing prize.

Each guest has been meticulously vetted by the shadowy Trust, which has staff on-hand to make sure everyone plays fair. But with the village about to be cut off by a snow storm, they must be extra vigilant.

The game is set – but playing fair isn’t on everyone’s Christmas list.

And when the prize is to die for, it’s so tempting to inject a little murder into the mystery...

England, 1930. Grieving widows are a familiar sight on London's Necropolis Railway. So when an elegant young woman in a black veil boards the funeral train, nobody guesses that Rachel Savernake is not one of the mourners. She hopes to save a life – the life of a man who is supposed to be cold in the grave. But then a suspicious death on the railway track spurs her on to investigate a sequence of baffling mysteries. She believes that the cases are connected – but what possible link can there be? To find the answers to her questions she joins a house party on the eerie and remote North Yorkshire coast at Mortmain Hall.