Seething resentments, well-kept family secrets, and a savage murder set the stage for Christmas in Cornwall in this cozy holiday installment of the Daisy Dalrymple mysteries.
In December 1923, the formidable Dowager Viscountess Dalrymple has decided that for Christmas the family will all gather at Brockdene in Cornwall at the invitation of Lord Westmoor. Her daughter—Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher—is somewhat less than pleased but yields to the demands of her mother, especially as she’ll be there just before the holidays working on another article for Town and Country about the estate itself.
But the family gathering quickly goes awry. Brockdene, it seems, is only occupied by the Norvilles—poor relations of Lord Westmoor—and Westmoor himself won’t be joining them. So Daisy, her husband Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, and their family must spend their Christmas holiday trapped in an ancestral estate with a rich history of lore, ghost stories, and rumors of hidden treasure and secret passageways with a family seething with resentments, grudges, and a faintly scandalous history.
The veneer of civility that pervades the halls of Brockdene, however, begins to wear thin when long-held family secrets threaten to bubble over and one of the Christmas guests is found savagely murdered.
With few clues as to who committed the murder, and with too many motives as to why, it is once again up to Daisy to sort out the truth that lies beneath a generation of poisonous secrets.
© 2016 Blackstone Publishing (Ljudbok): 9781504702935
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 15 mars 2016
Seething resentments, well-kept family secrets, and a savage murder set the stage for Christmas in Cornwall in this cozy holiday installment of the Daisy Dalrymple mysteries.
In December 1923, the formidable Dowager Viscountess Dalrymple has decided that for Christmas the family will all gather at Brockdene in Cornwall at the invitation of Lord Westmoor. Her daughter—Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher—is somewhat less than pleased but yields to the demands of her mother, especially as she’ll be there just before the holidays working on another article for Town and Country about the estate itself.
But the family gathering quickly goes awry. Brockdene, it seems, is only occupied by the Norvilles—poor relations of Lord Westmoor—and Westmoor himself won’t be joining them. So Daisy, her husband Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, and their family must spend their Christmas holiday trapped in an ancestral estate with a rich history of lore, ghost stories, and rumors of hidden treasure and secret passageways with a family seething with resentments, grudges, and a faintly scandalous history.
The veneer of civility that pervades the halls of Brockdene, however, begins to wear thin when long-held family secrets threaten to bubble over and one of the Christmas guests is found savagely murdered.
With few clues as to who committed the murder, and with too many motives as to why, it is once again up to Daisy to sort out the truth that lies beneath a generation of poisonous secrets.
© 2016 Blackstone Publishing (Ljudbok): 9781504702935
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 15 mars 2016
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Carola Dunn vågar gå utanför temat med en genialisk och dysfunktionell detektiv. I stället visar hon på lagarbete och även engagerad allmänhet. Hon går utanför ramarna om offer som i några stereotyper; rika, mäktiga, kriminella, kvinnor. Det är mycket trevligt med lite mer "vanliga" människor i denna genre också. Daisy som lugnt och sansat bara lämnar en underordnad position som fattig släkting och kvinna. Skaffar sig jobb på kontor och sedan som alltiallo, hos en kvinnlig vän som fotograf. Sedan tar hon reda på vad hon kan göra bra och vad hon tycker om. Sedan använder hon sig av sina kontakter för att få första artikel i en tidning om gods och trädgårdar. Skönt som omväxling mot alla hjälplösa kvinnokaraktärer. Sedan är hon inte övermänsklig heller.
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