The Ice House
(2026)(The second book in the Fane and Blackwood Mystery series)
A novel by A G Barnett
A man stabbed inside a locked ice house. One door. No way out. The police call it impossible and walk away.
Nell Blackwood calls it a challenge.
Arriving at Braeburn Hall posing as a library assessor, Nell must unpick a household held together by lies — buried affairs, tangled loyalties, and a fraud hiding in plain sight for years. Secretly guided by Roderick Fane from his crumbling North Oxford study, she is learning that the most dangerous rooms aren't always the ones with locked doors.
Someone at Braeburn has killed before. Planned carefully. Waited patiently.
And now Nell is asking exactly the wrong questions.
The Ice House is the second Fane & Blackwood Mystery — classic detective fiction with dark edges, set in 1920s Oxfordshire. Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Anthony Horowitz.
Genre: Mystery
Nell Blackwood calls it a challenge.
Arriving at Braeburn Hall posing as a library assessor, Nell must unpick a household held together by lies — buried affairs, tangled loyalties, and a fraud hiding in plain sight for years. Secretly guided by Roderick Fane from his crumbling North Oxford study, she is learning that the most dangerous rooms aren't always the ones with locked doors.
Someone at Braeburn has killed before. Planned carefully. Waited patiently.
And now Nell is asking exactly the wrong questions.
The Ice House is the second Fane & Blackwood Mystery — classic detective fiction with dark edges, set in 1920s Oxfordshire. Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Anthony Horowitz.
Genre: Mystery