By Stephanie Barron

Jane Austen turns sleuth during this pleasant homicide secret set over the twelve days of a Regency-Era Christmas party.

Christmas Eve, 1814: Jane Austen has been invited to spend the vacation with friends and family on the Vyne, the attractive ancestral domestic of the rich and politically well known Chute kinfolk. because the 12 months fades and neighbors start to assemble underneath the mistletoe for the twelve days of Christmas festivities, Jane and her circle are in a celebratory temper: Mansfield Park is promoting properly; Napoleon has been banished to Elba; British forces have seized Washington, DC; and on Christmas Eve, John Quincy Adams symptoms the Treaty of Ghent, to be able to finish a warfare no one in England rather wanted.
 
Jane, even though, discovers vacation cheer is fleeting. one of many xmas revelers dies in a sad coincidence, which Jane instantly perspectives with suspicion. If the twist of fate used to be actually homicide, the killer is certainly one of Jane’s fellow snow-bound visitors. With clues scattered amidst cleverly crafted charades, darkish secrets and techniques coming to mild in the course of parlor video games, and previous friendships returning to hang-out the Christmas events, whom can Jane belief to assist her become aware of the reality and forestall the killer from amazing again?

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That’s because all three people on the board of Pelerin and Cie are dead. Armand in 1926, Pouget in 1867, and Lorelot in 1962. ” Rafi asked. “I don’t know yet. The estates of all three men are handled by an avocat—a lawyer in the village named Pierre Ducos. It took almost eight months to track Ducos down after I started trying to decipher the notebook. -Julien and found themselves in a landscape that had changed very little since the time it had been the realm of Richard the Lionheart’s mother, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, eight hundred years before.

And the key lay in the small, blood- spattered notebook now locked in a desk drawer in Lieutenant Colonel John Holliday’s study. The notebook was the gift of an ex-priest named Helder Rodrigues, dying in Holliday’s arms on the island of Corvo in the distant Azores. The gift came with a codicil, however: use it wisely, use it well or use it not at all. The Templar treasure Rodrigues had revealed to Holliday and Peggy that day in the furious rain had been great enough; the secret revealed within the bloody notebook was a million times greater.

Holliday asked, looking for something to say. Japrisot wasn’t the most voluble person he’d ever met, even though his English was excellent. “Thirty-one years. ” “Prévôtales? Provost Corp? ” “Bad times,” commented Holliday. “Very bad,” said Japrisot. He shrugged. “Better for me than others however,” he murmured. ” Japrisot’s heavy shoulders lifted again. ” “There is that,” Holliday said and nodded. The Battle of Dien Bien Phu had been the last encounter of the war in Indochina for the French and a ghastly preview of the coming war in Vietnam for the United States.

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