The brand new, festive murder mystery for 2023 from 'modern rival to Agatha Christie' Ada Moncrieff
It's Christmas 1936 and an eclectic list of guests and staff have gathered for the grand reopening of Maybridge castle, a newly renovated yet still crumbling hotel deep in the Cumbrian countryside.
Amongst them are a doctor and his new wife, tarot readers, a journalist, an elderly amateur sleuth and her cat. By the time the first sherries have been drunk a person will be dead. An innocent game of murder-in-the-dark turns into a real game of life and death. Someone has changed the rules...but who?
I loved this book, I really loved our main character Daphne king and the unsuspecting partnership with Mrs Thewley, not forgetting Duke of course!!
I thought that the setting of the ‘very’ haunted maybridge castle was a brilliant setting however, I think the weekend didn’t go as expected for any of the characters!
I loved the eclectic mix of characters that each brought something to the story. And I loved the mix of detective work and comedy that gave me some laugh out loud moments too!
A great read that was well paced and kept me turning the pages to find out who the murderer was.
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