The Christmas ClueChristmas Eve, 1943. Anthony and Elva Pratt arrive in a snowy English village to run a murder mystery game and instead discover a real murder. The Pratts had planned for festive cheer, despite the wartime shortages: with Elva's map of the hotel and Anthony's prop weapons to use as clues, the guests in their parlour game would move through the rooms to figure out whodunnit. But when Anthony discovers the cook's sister Miss Silver beaten to death, they

"Murder in the Vendee" finds Lauriant disgraced and banished to a small

but nothing he can’t deal with

Ranulph is convinced that one of the the lawless inhabitants of the neighbouring island of St Nicholas is the culprit and prepares to attack

Fingernail-chewingly tense

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A fascinating tangle of witches and mermaids

Now in his seventies

'Britain's answer to Donna Tartt' Sunday Times

who was hanged by the neck until she was dead

the worlds we live

as she wonders who killed her and why

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