It’s part love story, part social commentary, part fun and part downright terrifying. Like all of Rhys’s books, this is so much more than a murder mystery. Agent: Meg Ruley, the Jane Rotrosen Agency. The Twelve Clues of Christmas is yet another brilliant novel from Rhys Bowen. 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. 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. 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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