Agent: Meg Ruley, the Jane Rotrosen Agency. Lady Georgiana Rannoch, distant heir to the Empire, has resigned herself to a dull Christmas in the family’s cold and cheerless Scottish castle with her henpecked brother, his awful wife and her even more repugnant family when an opportunity arises to act as a paid hostess at a house party. Bowen blends zany humor with fair-play detection as well as any author of traditional mysteries.
With one villager dying each day, the amateur sleuth suspects that the accidents are anything but. Accompanied by the anti-Jeeves, her bumbling, if endearing, maid Queenie, Georgiana arrives in Tiddleton-Under-Lovey only to find that a series of apparently accidental deaths has begun to plague the rustic community. See details International shipment of items may be subject to customs processing and additional charges. Condition: Very Good US 5.98 Buy It Now Add to cart Add to Watchlist Breathe easy. Escape comes just in time for the holidays when she answers an advert and is hired to help Lady Hawse-Gorzley with a large Christmas party at Hawse-Gorzley’s home in Tiddleton-under-Lovey, Devonshire. Rhys Bowen does a good job of vividly describing everyday life, and in this book holiday food, games, and traditions, in a way that is engaging and never. The Twelve Clues of Christmas Paperback Rhys Bowen Be the first to write a review.
Despite her connections (albeit attenuated) to the Crown (she’s 35th in the line of succession), Georgiana finds herself at the mercy of her brother’s ghastly family. Set at Christmas-time 1933, Bowen’s sixth whodunit featuring the irrepressible Lady Georgiana Rannoch (after 2011’s Naughty in Nice) may be her best yet.
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