{"id":3410,"date":"2025-02-25T18:28:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T17:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2025-02-25T18:28:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T17:28:42","slug":"review-the-frozen-people-by-elly-griffiths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-the-frozen-people-by-elly-griffiths\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Frozen People, by Elly Griffiths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Elly Griffiths is the author of two very successful series of novels, knocking off dozens of titles.  She apparently has a huge fanbase.  This book promises the be the first of a series featuring Ali Dawson, a London detective serving in a secret division of the Metropolitan Police.  That division&#8217;s specialty is &#8230; wait for it &#8230; time travel.  That had me hooked.  Dawson is sent back in time to 1850 to do &#8212; well, it&#8217;s not entirely clear what exactly she is supposed to do.  But she gets stuck there for a few days and meanwhile, in the present, her son is arrested for a murder which he obviously didn&#8217;t commit.  The idea of parallel murders in the past and the present has been done before, and time travel is always appealing to me, but &#8212; the book doesn&#8217;t work. Much of the plot makes no sense.  Many questions are left unanswered, as if the book was rushed.  Maybe it was.  This is the start of a new series, but I&#8217;m not particularly tempted to continue with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elly Griffiths is the author of two very successful series of novels, knocking off dozens of titles. She apparently has a huge fanbase. This book promises the be the first of a series featuring Ali&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3412,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions\/3412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}