Mistletoe and murder

"It's December 1923, and the formidable Dowager Viscountess Dalrymple has decreed that for Christmas the family will all gather at Brockdene in Cornwall at the invitation of Lord Westmoor. So her daughter, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, and Daisy's husband, Detective Chief I...

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Main Author: Dunn, Carola (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Minotaur Books, 2020.
Edition: First Minotaur books paperback edition.
Series: Daisy Dalrymple mystery ; 11.
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Summary: "It's December 1923, and the formidable Dowager Viscountess Dalrymple has decreed that for Christmas the family will all gather at Brockdene in Cornwall at the invitation of Lord Westmoor. So her daughter, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, and Daisy's husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, must spend their Christmas holiday trapped in an ancestral estate with a rich history of lore, ghost stories, 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 begins to wear thin when long-held family secrets threaten to bubble over, and one of the Christmas guest is found savagely murdered. With too few clues as to who committed the murder and with too many motives as to why, it is up to Daisy to sort out the truth that lies beneath a generation of poisonous secrets."--Back cover
Physical Description: 248 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9781250754424
1250754429
Author Notes: Carola Dunn was born in England on November 14, 1946. She received a B.A. in Russian and French from Manchester University and took a secretarial course for graduates at Oxford Tech. She traveled to numerous places around the world including Samoa and Fiji before getting married and settling in California. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, she worked in child-care, market research, construction, and wrote definitions for a science and technology dictionary. Her first book, Toblethorpe Manor, was published in 1979. Since then, she has written over 50 books including more than 30 Regency romances and the Daisy Dalrymple mystery series.

(Bowker Author Biography)