Anne Perry's Christmas Crimes

Two Victorian Holiday Mysteries: A Christmas Homecoming and A Christmas Garland

Author  Anne Perry
Anne Perry's Christmas Crimes

’Tis the season for a pair of Christmas novels that add a dash of murder to the Yuletide spirit.
 
“Perry’s Victorian-era holiday mysteries [are] an annual treat.”—The Wall Street Journal
 
A CHRISTMAS HOMECOMING
 
“Could have been devised by Agatha Christie . . . [Anne Perry is] a modern master.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
 
Charlotte Pitt’s mother, Caroline, is spending the holiday with her young husband, Joshua Fielding, in Whitby, the fishing village where Dracula first touches English soil in Bram Stoker’s sensational novel. Joshua has arranged to produce a stage adaptation of Dracula, written by the daughter of millionaire Charles Netheridge, but tempers flare after a disastrous first read-through of the script. As wind and snow swirl around Netheridge’s…