title: Frozen
author:  Lindsay Jayne Ashford 
description: In Ashford's uneven debut, the first of a series, the police call in Megan Rhys, a Birmingham, England, forensic psychologist, after the discovery of a murdered prostitute leads a detective superintendent to suspect that one of his own men has gone bad. As Megan begins to assemble the clues she needs to construct an accurate profile of what appears to be a serial killer, she gets a plea for help from a female newscaster who has been receiving threatening and obscene messages. Few readers will be surprised when the two inquiries converge, while some may feel the choice to share the killer's suspicious thoughts with the reader halfway through gives too much away. Hopefully, Ashford, a former BBC journalist and the first woman to graduate from Queens' College Cambridge with a criminology master's degree, will use her impressive background more effectively in her next Megan Rhys novel.<i> (Aug.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  FROZEN
  
  
  Lindsay Ashford
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Copyright © Lindsay Ashford, 2013
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The right of Lindsay Ashford to be identified as the author of this work has
  been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a
  retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic,
  mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission
  of the copyright owner.
  
  
  
  
  
  The author would like to stress that
  
  
  this is a work of fiction and no resemblance to any actual individual or
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  Revised edition published 2013. First edition published by Honno 2003
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover image and design: Isabella Ashford
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Chapter 1
  
  
  
  
  
  December 2003
  
  
  
  
  
  He knew exactly where to find her. Like all of them she was territorial, but
  unlike most she always stood alone, jea