A Cold Place to Fall

An Ice Age Mystery

von Alyan Siddiqui

150 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The river is turning to stone. And a dead man lies beneath the scaffold on the ice.Winter has come to the Urren valley, and the forty souls of the Kettle, a tight-knit Upper Paleolithic band, are battening down for the deep freeze. When Bren, second hunter and master bone-tool maker, is found dead beneath the mammoth-tusk scaffold on the first hard frost, the fire-keeper names it an accident of the ice.But Ruva the finder looks closer.The cracked ice beneath the body is days old - it didn't break under Bren's weight. The belt knife lying beside him is not the blade that struck the blow. And deep in the mud of the tanning pits, a buried flint scraper carries a line of fresh red ochre that shouldn't be there.Someone in the Kettle killed the bone-tool maker. And with the river freezing and the road closing, whoever did it is still sitting at the fire.To keep forty people from tearing themselves apart before the thaw, Ruva must read the frost, the footprints, and the silences - assembling the truth clue by clue before the council fire names the wrong man and sends an innocent down the exile road into a winter that kills. A Cold Place to Fall is the first book in The River Kettle, a prehistoric cozy mystery series set 30,000 years before the first written word - where justice has no jails, exile means death, and the only forensic tools are sharp eyes, sharper questions, and a finder who reads people the way she reads the river.Perfect for readers who love: - Atmospheric, character-driven mystery with a vivid prehistoric setting- An amateur sleuth who solves crimes through observation, not violence- Rich world-building with authentic Ice Age daily life- A slow-burn thread of connection woven through the investigation- Series openers that reward patient, immersive readingFor fans of Jean Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear, Louise Penny's Three Pines mysteries, and Ann Hillerman's Navajo mysteries - if you love a close community, an outsider detective, and a landscape that's as much a character as the people in it.Book One of The River Kettle. No cliffhanger. Complete mystery.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798173066213
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.09.2026
• Größe: 203 x 133 mm
• Verlag: Predominance Novels