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Brought to you by Penguin.

'Tis the season for murder, in this locked-room holiday mystery. Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Robert Thorogood and Rev Richard Coles.

Welcome to Mistletoe Manor Hotel. Four days before Christmas, twelve stranded strangers gather round a crackling fire…

They are sheltering from the storm raging outside. But their relief is short-lived: as the snow deepens, the tree-lined avenue winding through the hotel’s parkland becomes impassable. Their isolation is complete.

The next morning, a body is found in one of the luxurious four-poster beds.

As twelve strangers become eleven suspects, who among them has checked in with murder in mind?

And will any of them live to see another Christmas…?

This festive locked-room mystery is perfect for fans of cosy whodunits, Agatha Christie and Sarah Yarwood-Lovett.

'Murder in a snowed-in country hotel - and a killer with a grudge against the season of goodwill. What could be better?' Faith Martin

'A festive mystery to read by the fire with a glass of mulled wine... brilliantly inventive... will keep you turning the pages well into the night. Loved it.' Catherine Cooper

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Critic reviews

[An] engaging novel with echoes of the golden age of crime fiction … very entertainingly done.
Brilliantly festive and utterly gripping . . . A whodunnit that’s perfect for armchair detectives. (Rachel Hodge)
With well-drawn relatable characters, this yule-fuelled mystery is the perfect read with a glass of mulled wine in front of a roaring fire.
Murder in a snowed-in country hotel - and a killer with a grudge against the season of goodwill. What could be better? (Faith Martin)
A festive mystery to read by the fire with a glass of mulled wine . . . brilliantly inventive . . . will keep you turning the pages well into the night. Loved it. (Catherine Cooper)
A brilliant premise with thoroughly believable characters. A perfect contemporary whodunnit. (Ian Moore)
A contemporary locked in whodunnit that pairs well with mulled wine and candlelight.
The perfect whodunnit.
Gripping and atmospheric . . .A killer Christmas read.
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Loved this! not just a great christmas murder mystery but a great murder mystery! best I've read in while. Would definitely recommend. performance great also! Really captured the individual characters.

Loved it!

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I loved this whole book. Didn’t want it to end. What I loved most was learning about all of the characters and it was so different from many of the murder mysteries I have read where the murder happens and the rest of the book is the detectives questioning everybody with the same thing over and over again. This was my favourite Christmas murder mystery. It had everything in it. Christmas, great characters with good storylines and not one of them annoying. I felt as though I was there with them and I know it will be a long time before I read another one this good. Well done to the author for such a good story and the narrator for his superb reading of this book x

Brilliant Brilliant Story

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Starts off interesting and then fades away. No depth to characters, and far too long for the content of the plot.

Monotonous in the middle

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This has the makings of a good Christmas mystery - but let down by really poor editing. Penguin should be ashamed that one of their editors didn’t take a scalpel to this and turn it into the better book hiding in there. Also poor copy editing (is the manor luxurious or rundown?).
Narration fairly good, apart from what sounded like some weird effects on female voices.
Worth a listen, but could have been made better.

Flawed festivity

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Personally, they just wasn’t enough going on to make me super excited about coming back, I did finish as it is a Book Club 📕 choice this month and it was an easy read however I did find it relatively predictable. Great narration though.

Easy read but fairly predictable

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