Frozen (28 page)

‘I'm sorry, I can't do this,' she whispered, swallowing hard to stop the tears she wouldn't allow him to see. ‘Maybe sometime.'

She stroked his cheek with her finger, wanting to believe herself. ‘Sometime. But not yet.'

 

Lindsay Jayne Ashford studied criminology at Cambridge University, where she became the first woman to graduate from Queens' College in its eight-hundred-year history.

She went on to train as a journalist with the BBC. The idea for
Frozen
came while she was researching the vice trade in the Birmingham area of the UK, where she was born and raised.

Lindsay has written two more novels featuring forensic psychologist Megan Rhys,
Strange Blood
and
Death Studies.
She now lives in West Wales with her husband and four children.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ashford, Lindsay Jayne.

Frozen / Lindsay Jayne Ashford—1st U.S. ed.

   p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-0-312-35581-4

ISBN-10: 0-312-35581-5

1. Psychologists—Fiction. 2. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6101.S545 F76 2006

823'.92—dc22

2006047525

First published in Wales by Honno

First U.S. Edition: August 2006

eISBN 9781466838789

First eBook edition: January 2013