The Dead of Winter

Much against her better judgement Rina Martin accepts an invitation to join her protégé Tim and his fiancée Joy at Aitkensthorpe a country house with a sinister reputation. Gathered there are a collection of scientists magicians and experts in the esoteric; their plan is to re-enact an incident from 1872 that left one man dead another driven half mad and led a third to become a recluse. Rina is relieved when her friend DI MacGregor comes to rescue her. But then the weather closes in a blizzard cutting them off from the world outside and Edwin Holmes grand old man of psychical research is found murdered in his bed. Trapped in the house with a killer Mac and Rina must find the culprit…