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The Thirteenth Guest of Frost Pavilion: a wuxia mystery
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 13 2026
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Thirteen strangers. One locked room. A secret worth killing for - twice.
When an early mountain storm seals off the only road down, Xie Lang Yun finds shelter at Frost Pavilion alongside twelve other stranded travelers. By the second night, one of them is dead - in a room barred from the inside, its window untouched by snow, its impossible circumstances defying every rational explanation.
The victim carried a sealed box up the mountain, and he is not the only guest at Frost Pavilion hiding who he truly is. As Xie Lang Yun is drawn into the investigation, old debts surface: a fallen martial sect, a betrayal decades in the making, and a killer - or two - whose motives run deeper than any single guest suspects.
Written in the atmospheric, restrained tradition of classic wuxia fiction and structured as a fair-play locked-room mystery, The Thirteenth Guest of Frost Pavilion asks readers to solve the puzzle alongside a wandering swordsman who has his own violent past to reckon with - before the thaw comes, and Frost Pavilion's secrets scatter down the mountain with its departing guests.
Perfect for readers of classic locked-room mysteries and wuxia fiction alike.
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