The perfect festive murder mystery for 2024 from 'modern rival to Agatha Christie' Ada Moncrieff
It's Christmas 1937 and an eclectic list of guests and staff have gathered for the grand re-opening of Maybridge castle, a newly renovated yet still crumbling hotel deep in the Cumbrian countryside. They are:
The ex-socialite owner
The Doctor and his new wife
The stylish journalist
The know-all housekeepers
The still-grieving widower and his son
The tarot readers
The passionate academic
The persistent investigative reporter
The elder amateur sleuth, and her cat
An innocent game of murder-in-the-dark will turn into a real game of life and death. And by the time the first sherries have been drunk, one of these people will be dead - and one of them the killer. Someone has changed the rules, but who?
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781787304314
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 215 g
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 18 mm
The third novel (the second to feature Daphne King) is a lot of fun. The plot is good with solid characters. I enjoyed the lightness of the writing, the dialogue is fun and the book emulates the style of the... More
A delightful murder mystery set in December 1936 when an eclectic set of characters are invited to the opening weekend of the first ever haunted hotel in a castle in remote Cumbria.
I particularly liked the way...
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A Moncrieff Christmas murder novel is becoming as much a Christmas tradition as mince pies, fairy lights and a nap after dinner.
Daphne King, fledgling private investigator, is invited by her partner’s cousin,...
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