A Christmas Guest: A Novel (The Christmas Stories)

A Christmas Guest: A Novel (The Christmas Stories)

Anne Perry has dazzled readers for decades with her gripping Victorian novels and has won new fans with her acclaimed World War I series. Perryâ€™s thrilling Christmas novels, recent additions to her unique repertoire, are set in the most joyous season of the year.

In A Christmas Guest, Mariah Ellison, better known as the vinegar-tongued Grandmama from the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, makes a stunning appearance in a bracing story full of devious delight . . . and certain death.
For Grandmama Ellison, Christmas is no reason to celebrate. And when her daughter and son-in-law plan a Christmas vacation to Paris sans hers truly, the cantankerous Grandmama is forced to stay elsewhereâ€“and travels to the chilly, windswept Romney Marshes to spend the holiday with Charlotte Pittâ€™s parents, Caroline and Joshua Fielding.

Grandmama is immediately miserable. For starters, Christmas with the Fieldings is nothing like the cultured life to which sheâ€™s accustomed, and the Romney Marshes are unbearably provincial. When Joshuaâ€™s cousin Maude Barrington arrives, Grandmama is at her witâ€™s end. Although Maude is well traveled and friendly, Grandmama thinks sheâ€™s improper and strange. But when Maude is found lifeless in bed, Grandmama senses foul play and takes it upon herself to assume the role of amateur detectiveâ€“uncovering not only the truth about Maude Barrington but some startling truths about herself as well.

Enlivened with bold characters and vivid, witty writing, A Christmas Guest is yet another holiday novella with the perfect combination of mystery and murder mixed with a generous helping of yuletide cheer.
Country USA
Brand Ballantine Books
Manufacturer Ballantine Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 0345483804_gdd_341
ReleaseDate 2005-11-01
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780345483805

Country	USA
Brand	Ballantine Books
Manufacturer	Ballantine Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	0345483804_gdd_341
ReleaseDate	2005-11-01
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780345483805

A Christmas Guest: A Novel (The Christmas Stories)

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