Author: Carola Dunn Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Cozy Mystery
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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 something 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, 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 if 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.
This book is part of the "Daisy Dalrymple" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Heirs of the Body" First published in 2013 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Sheer Folly" First published in 2009 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Gunpowder Plot" First published in 2006 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A Mourning Wedding" First published in 2004 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Die Laughing" First published in 2003 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "To Davy Jones Below" First published in 2001 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Rattle His Bones" First published in 2000 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Styx and Stones" First published in 1999 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Dead in the Water" First published in 1998 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Damsel in Distress" First published in 1997 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Requiem for a Mezzo" First published in 1996 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Gone West" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Black Ship" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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